Victim Of Eruption At

Rabaul

ACCEPTING an affidavit by a New Guinea native, Mr. Justice Nicholas in the Equity Court, Sydney, on May 1 granted leave to swear death in the case of William Wallace Elworthy, 28, engineer at the Rabaul power station, who disappeared on May 29, 1937, on Matupi Island. The affidavit was sworn by Kulau, personal servant to Mr. El worthy, who was with him on that date during the eruption at Rabaul.

Just prior to the outburst on Vulcan Island, according to Kulau, Mr. Elworthy paddled across the harbour in a native canoe to the base of Matupi to obtain some photographs. He began to climb the crater, carrying his camera, and called out for Kulau to follow him, but the terrified native refused. When Mr.

Elworthy was half-way up a black pall of smoke descended on the volcano and beach. Losing sight of him, Kulau searched for 24 hours but was unsuc cessful.

The cable ship “Recorder” arrived in Sydney in April from Singapore, where 140 miles of telegraph cable was taken on board to be used on renewals of the cables between Norfolk Is. and New Zealand and N.T. and Fiji.

Captain Rex Nicoll, of Wau, New Guinea, married Miss Alice Hemsworth, of Campbelltown, N.S.W., at Wau on April 16, Mr. T. Gould, of the Fiji Civil Service at Nadi, has been transferred to Hong- Kong to take up a position in the Colonial Legal Service.

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Suva with his wife by the “Yngaren” for Europe on April 22.