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Pacific Islands Monthly, 20 November 1935Vol. VI, No. 4

Oroville Co.’S Seaplane

p. 9 · Read in the full issue

From Our Own Correspondent

Pt. Moresby, Nov. 2.

'T'HE Oroville Dredging Co.’s Short Scion seaplane, in charge of Flight-Lieu tenant Stuart Campbell, arrived in Port

Moresby on October 25 with Mr. Ward Williams as passenger. The flight was made from the com pany’s base camp 550 miles up the Ply River and was uneventful, except for a few hours’ stop at Kikori, in the Delta Division, Mr. Ward Williams left Port Moresby for Austra lia on furlough by the Montoro on October 31.

The ’plane will shortly return to the Fly River, where Mr. Campbell will continue his survey of the Oroville Company’s 29,000 square miles mineral con cession in the Western Division.

A Tongan Noble’s Family: The children of Chief Ata, one of the most able men in the present Parliament of Tonga-