As Deck Cargo
Guinea Airways' Huge 'Plane Shipped to Lae
WHEN the Macdhui left Sydney for New Guinea on November 8, she carried on specially constructed decking, aft of the main deck, the large new Ford aeroplane which arrived in Sydney from England in October for Guinea Airways Ltd., and which will enter the goldfields transport services.
Originally it was intended that Mr. Eric Chater, one of Guinea Airways’ pilots, should fly the machine from Mascot to Lae, New Guinea, as the Macdhui’s hatch was too small to take the fuse lage—46 feet in length. Eventually, how ever, the machine, packed in three giant crates, was taken to the wharf; and the crates were loaded aboard the vessel as deck cargo—one behind the main deck, one behind the stern hatch, and the third on the port side at right angles to the others.
It was a difficult job—the crates stretched from gunwale to gunwale— but the Macdhui left on time with the huge crates securely fastened in place.
The huge aeroplane will be assembled at Guinea Airways’ workshops at Lae.
New Guinea.
Miss Betty Bunting, the charming daughter of the Hon. A. H. Bunting, of Samarai, Papua, who recently announced her engagement to Mr. Reg.
Prevost, a popular young Sydney architect.