Deaths

Miss Annie Williams At Lautoka, Fiji, on June 13, of a heart disorder, aged 74.

Miss Williams spent her life as a teacher and was well-known for her interest in the Girl Guide Movement, becoming Girl Guide Dominion Commissioner in Fiji.

She was also president of the Pan-Pacific Asia Women’s As sociation. She died on her 74th birthday.

Fonoti Galu, & Taula’i Ligoligo Tauiliili In American Samoa, on May 12 and May 13 respectively.

Fonoti Galu represented Saole County in the American Samoa Senate in the 10th Legislature 1966-68, and Taula’i Ligoligo Tauiliili represented Fitiuta County in the House of Repre sentatives from 1959 to 1962.

Both the Senate President and House Speaker expressed the Fono’s condolences to the be reaved families at the passing of two of those who helped to build American Samoa’s political foundations.

Chandra Pal Singh In Suva on June 5, aged 69.

Mr Singh was a member of the Legislative Council in the days before independence. He was bom at Nausori and attended St Columbus School in Suva. In

1940 he joined Suva Motors and became the first local garage supervisor. He then became a dairy farmer and bought a bus company and a sawmill. Mr Singh represented the Indian community in London at the first constitutional conference in 1965. He also served as a board member of the Fiji Broadcasting Commission for three years to 1967.

Dr Bruce Sinclair The dwindling band of pre-war residents of the former Mandated Territory of New Guinea lost another well-known and popular member with the death in mid- June of Dr Bruce Sinclair.

After serving with the Aust ralian Imperial Forces in France during World War 1, in which he received severe wounds from a shell burst which troubled him for the rest of his life, he studied medicine in Sydney during the early 19205. After qualifying and practising for a short time in New South Wales, he joined the New Guinea Administration medical service in 1928 and in 1929

married Sister Maud O’Donnell of Rabaul Hospital.

For 15 years his medical career was confined mainly to postings in Rabaul and at Salamaua in the Morobe gold fields district, where his skills as a medico and surgeon had ample scope.

Following the Japanese inva

sion of New Guinea he led the last party of Europeans out of Salamaua on a coastal trek on foot down into Papua.

He returned to New Guinea for some years after the war, and then returned to Australia to end his career as medical superinten

dent of Greenslopes Repatriation

Hospital in Brisbane.

Bad health plagued his later years and he spent the last 18 months of his life in hospital with his wife in daily attendance until he finally passed away in his

sleep.

Bert E. Weston.

Ratu Simione Batiratu Matanitobua In Fiji on June 6, aged 60.

The Tui (Chief) Namosi, Ratu Simione was a senior education

officer whose career spanned 40 years. He was awarded the MBE only this year. He was a well known radio personality as pro

ducer-presenter of the Ministry

of Education’s Fijian program.

The grandson of Ratu Siliano Ro Matanitobua, one of the 13 chiefs who signed the Deed of Cession to Britain in 1874, Ratu Simione had been a member of the Great Council of Chiefs since 1956.

John M. Calver In Canada on May 12 after a long illness, aged 65.

John Calver was a retired Roy al Canadian Navy Commander and veteran of World War 2, who came to American Samoa in 1967 as a harbor pilot. He was later named manager of the Wa ter Transportation Division and played an important part in the acquisition of the government vessels, Tatoso, Tavae, Toloa, Manusina, Talitiga and Matu’u.

John Calver’s first tour lasted six years, and in 1979 he was invited to be a temporary harbor pilot, later to become harbor master. 111-health forced him to resign in late 1981. Port Director Maiava Hunkin said of him: “He was a good man and a good friend and worker for American Samoa. He was awarded a certificate of ap

preciation by Governor Coleman

for his efforts. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him.”