P.O.D.'S Amphibian Delayed
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From Our Own Correspondent
Pt. Moresby, Oct. 17.
OAPUA Oil Development’s Sikorsky A amphibian (Mr. H. A. Davis, pilot) arrived here on October 9 from Australia, after several setbacks.
At Thursday Is., a wing was damaged when it hit a jetty. Further delay was caused by exceptional heavy S.E. winds.
En route from Daru to Pt. Moresby it became overdue and Mr. R. Walshe, Govt.
Medical Assistant, made a search in his own Moth. When he returned, he found the flying-boat safely moored here. It had sheltered at Kerema from the 50miles-an-hour headwinds.
Dr. C. E. Stehn, vulcanologist to the Dutch East Indies Government, arrived in Sydney by the September Malaita from New Guinea after concluding his investi gations to determine whether Rabaul would be safe in the future. He went on to Canberra to confer with Dr. W. G.
Woolnough, Commonwealth Geological Adviser, and they have submitted a report to the Federal Government. In Rabaul Dr. Stehn went to the bottom of Vulcan crater, using a gas mask, and, accompanied by Mr. N. Fisher, N.G. Ad ministration Geologist, climbed to the top of the Father volcano.