Carpenters Take Over N.G

N.G. Air Contracts Dragon Moth’s Flight to Salamaua

THE New Guinea Government contracts were formally taken over by the Car penter Air Service on August 1. The Carpenter Service fleet at that date con sisted of two small Moths and a Dragon Moth.

The new two-engined De Havilland Dragon Moth arrived in Sydney from England in July and was tested out at Mascot. Mr. R. O. Mant, chief pilot of the Carpenter Service, had intended to leave with the machine for New Guinea on Saturday, July 28, but particularly stormy weather intervened and he did not get away until July 31. Additional oil and petrol tanks were fitted to allow the ’plane to fly safely up the Queens land coast and across New Guinea to Wau. It is intended to use this machine on the Wau-Port Moresby service.

Mr. Mant arrived at Port Moresby on his second day after leaving Sydney; and he landed at Salamaua at 9 a.m. the following day.

Pastor H. L. Tolhurst of Nukualofa, Tonga, and Pastor E. B. Rudge of Suva, Fiji, arrived in Sydney by the Aorangi on August 10. They will attend the annual council meeting of the Seventh Day Ad ventist Conference, which will be held shortly at Wahroonga, N.S.W.