Deaths

Alfred Lawton Story, of Raro tonga, Cook Islands. Known to all the islanders as Fred, he was the only son of Martha and Dr Cuthbert Story of Edinburgh, Scotland where he was bom in 1911.

He was a self-taught engineer who was well known through out the Cook Islands and New Zealand.

Lery Ray, one of Tahiti’s best known hoteliers died of bone cancer on January 2, aged 56.

Mr Rey, who owned the Hotel Te Puna Bel Air on Tahiti, the Hotel Moorea La

goon on Moorea and two Pape ete nightclubs, was among the first Tahitians to enter the hotel industry when he bought the Bel Air 17 years ago.

Until his illness he was presi dent of the Polynesian Hotel Association and vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He is survived by his wife and five children.

Kuri Dom, a Papua New Gui nean student studying in Eng land died on January 17.

Mr Dom, 37, from Chimbu province, was studying for a PhD in economics at the Lon don School of Economics. No cause of death was given.

Announcing his death, the

University of Papua New Guinea registrar, Mr Frank Diala, said the whole UPNG community had been stunned by the sudden tragedy.

Mr Dom joined the univer sity’s Department of Anthropol ogy and Sociology in 1978 after completing a BA degree in social work. After completing a BA honours degree in 1979 and a master’s degree in econo mics at LSE in 1981, he was appointed a lecturer before re turning to London to further his studies.

He leaves a wife, Ruth, and children, Grace, Michael and Paul.