Hides

Death Of Jack

IT is announced, as we go to press, that Mr. Jack Hides, 31, famous for exploration achievements in Papua, died in a private hospital in Sydney on Sunday night, June 19.

Pneumonia is given officially as the cause of death. Actually,' the doctors had conquered the pneu monic condition, but Mr. Hides did not rally. He had never recovered from the mysterious form of beri beri disease he contracted, plus the incred’ble physical effort he made, when bringing David Lyall out from the centre of New Guinea to Daru in August-September, 1937. He spent some months in the mountains near Sydney, and had three or four spells in hospital, but he f?jipd to recover his former wiry strength, which had carried him through so many critical situations in Papua.