The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 20 April 1934Vol. IV, No. 9

To Sydney

p. 14 · Read in the full issue

Flight From New Guinea

Sydney Marshall, an Australian pilot, landed at Mascot Aerodrome on April 15, completing a flight from New Guinea in three and a half days. Mr. Marshall flew a Westland Widgeon monoplane. It was the first time that the flight has been accomplished.

Mr. Marshall, who is attached to Guinea Airways in New Guinea, is on three months’ leave. He decided to spend his leave in Sydney. His flight commenced from Lae. He flew via Port Moresby and Cooktown and thence down the Queens land and New South Wales coasts.