Crash At Wau, N.G.

When the engine of this Guinea Airways Stinson Reliant aeroplane stalled just after taking off from Wau aerodrome on August 27, the machine crashed and completely wrecked a wooden build ing used as native labour quarters. The pilot, Mr. W. J. Robins, escaped serious injury, but one of the two natives in the hut died subse quently from injuries received when the- building collapsed. There were no passengers in the ’plane —Mrs. S. A. Murcutt and her daughter, who were to have flown to an “out” aerodrome in the Stinson, arrived at Wau ’drome too late to travel by it.