Aeroplane Accident In Papua

From Our Own Correspondent

Ft. Moresby, Dec. 1.

The Moth aeroplane, owned and * piloted by Mr. J. N. Walshe, of the Medical Department of Papua, was dam aged while making a landing at Kapa Kapa on November 20. The undercarriage partly collapsed, and the plane was thrown on one side.

Neither Mr. Walshe nor the native by whom he was accompanied was in jured. The plane is being sent to Lae foi repairs.

Mr. Walshe was on his way to inspect a new landing ground at Hula, put down recently by Rev. H. J. Short, of the

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