Deaths

Adi Eleni Saiki Kikau In Suva in December, after a short illness, aged 59.

Adi Saiki was a manageress,

supervisor and vice-president of

the Soqosoqo Vakamarama m Suva who helped women to de velop skills in Fijian handicrafts into money-making ventures.

She was bom in Bau and brought up by the late Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna.

Adi Saiki was taken to Lau and sent to a Tongan School in Lomaloma where Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna was the Commissioner Eastern.

When he was transferred to Suva, Adi Saiki joined the Bal lantine Memorial School of Muanikau but moved to De lainavesi when the school was taken over by the army in 1935.

Adi Saiki trained as a teacher at Davullevu for two years and her first assignment was at Bau Methodist Mission School.

She married Ratu (later Sir) Jone Kikau and left her teaching career.

When Ratu Kikau took up a position in the Fijian administra tion as Roko Tui in various pro vinces, Adi Saiki worked along with him in the interest of wo men through the Soqosoqo Vakamarama.

In 1945 Adi Saiki was in Tailevu for several years and in Levuka for eight years teaching handicraft.

For her contributions to the

community, especially in en

couraging local women to be come community conscious, teaching and reviving arts and culture, Adi Saiki was created a Member of the Order of the British Empire in June, 1975.

Among hundreds of mourners at the funeral service at the Suva Centenary Church in the morning of December 27 were the Gover nor-General, Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, former Governor- General and Vunivalu, Ratu Sir George Cakobau, and Adi Lady Lala Mara.

David James Oliver Caffin In Wellington in December, aged

44, after a short illness.

Mr Caffin was serving as New Zealand’s high commissioner to Western Samoa until September, 1983.

The son of veteran New Zea land journalist and expert on An tarctica, Jim Caffin, David Caffin was bom in Christchurch and educated at Christchurch Boys’ High School and Canter

bury University.

He joined New Zealand’s

foreign affairs department in

1964, spent some time seconded

to treasury, and was then posted to Washington from 1968 to 1973.

He was then seconded to the Commonwealth Secretariat as special assistant to the then sec retary-general, Arnold Smith, of Canada.

He returned to New Zealand in 1975 and in 1976 became private secretary to the then minister for

foreign affairs, Brian Talboys.

In 1977 he was posted to Paris as minister in the New Zealand Embassy, and from that post went to Apia.