Mr. Jack Hides
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t>Y the March Macdhui, Mr. Jack Hides, A.R.M. in the Papuan service, arrived in Sydney on three months’ sick leave. Mr.
Hides returned to Port Moresby in Decem ber; and in January he was one of a Pa puan official party which, in a Guinea Airways Junker machine, made a recon naissance flight from Mt. Hagen, in the Mandated Territory, southwards over un known Papua. The flight is described on page 39 of this issue.
From the Mandated Territory, Mr. Hides proceeded to Samarai and thence returned to his own station, on Misima Island. By this time, he had suffered a severe return of the malady which he contracted last year on the north-west patrol. Mr. Ren toul, R.M., ordered him back to Samarai, and the medical officer there said he must have three months’ sick leave, with quiet ness and rest.
Mr. A. T. Day, chairman of directors of Aloha Central Gold Mine N.L., arrived in Sydney from Fiji by the Mariposa on February 21, after making an inspection of the Aloha Central property at Tavua.