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DEATH OF FORMER ADMINISTRATOR OF RABAUL.
Advice was received in Canberra yesterday that the death had occurred in June, 1942, of Mr. Harry Orton Townsend, of Brisbane, a former Brit- ish Administrator of Rabaul.
Mr. Townsend lost his life when the Japanese prison ship, Montevideo Maru, was torpedoed off the Philip- pines. He had been captured at Rabaul, having stayed there to help in the evacuation of the population.
Also on board the ship was Mr. Har- old Page, brother of Sir Earle Page.
Mr. Townsend leaves a w¡dow, at present residing in Brisbane.
He was the brother of the late Mr. A. R. Townsend, of Forrest, Canberra, and uncle, of Miss Elizabeth Townsend and Mr. Neil Townsend, of Forrest.