Girl Flier For New Guinea.
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Miss Barbara Hitchins, 23, Left
Sydney early on January 21 in her Gipsy Moth aeroplane to fly to New Guinea, 2,700 miles. Mr. Bill Roberts accompanied Miss Hitchins as a pas senger to Kerema, Papua, where he has mining interests.
Sydney “Telegraph”, which is not strong on geography, said that the lady carried an extra 20-gallon tank of petrol, to help her in “the 500 miles hop across the Timor Sea”!
Miss E. W. Riley, 8.A., who had been a L.M.S. worker in Papua since 1931, died at Pt. Moresby on January 14.