P.O.D.’S Sikorsky Busy

From Our Own Correspondent

Port Moresby, May 2.

The P.O.D. Sikorsky plane, which ar * rived here on March 25, has already made several flights from Port Moresby to Daru and up the Fly, Strickland, and Bamu Rivers. P.O.D. are using the plane to maintain speedy communication with the widely separated parties now seeking oil in their concession of 20,000 s.m., up the Fly and the Bamu.

On April 9 the company’s chief geologist, Dr. C. W. Creek, left on a visit of inspec tion, and he returned to Port Moresby on April 15, with Messrs. J. Stathers and P. D. Radcliffe. On April 23 Mr. G. O.

Higgins, who arrived by the Montoro on April 15 as General Manager of the com pany (relieving Mr. G. M. Bland), flew to Daru on his first visit.

Mr. N. J. Taylor, of Rabaul, New Guinea, who was for six years attached to the staff of Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd. at Madang, married Miss I.

Edwards, of Norfolk Island and Vaucluse, at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, on April 13.

Mr. J. P. Blaikie-Webster, chairman of directors of New Guinea Goldfields Limited, sailed from Sydney on April 17 with his wife for England by the Strathaird.

Mr. Elston, a prominent American writer, has been spending a month's holi day in Apia, Western Samoa, with his wife. A film company now on location in America Samoa is using a script written by him.

Mr. J. K. McCarthy, Assistant District Officer in the N.G. Service, sailed from Sydney by the Nankin on May 11, after spending his leave in Melbourne. He was accompanied by his wife.