Adventures Of Girl Flyer

THE Australian “girl-flyer”, Miss Bar bara Hitchins, who delighted the flapper press by flying from Australia to New Guinea, but a made a complete nuisance of herself by getting lost in the New Guinea wilds, got herself into the headlines again during her return flight. Having recovered from severe injuries received by putting her hand into the propellor of her machine, at Wau, she set off for Australia. She left Wau at 7 a.m., and was not reported for many hours, but eventually landed at Somerset, near the tip of Cape York, at 3.30 p.m. She later left Cooktbwn to fly to Brisbane, but could not make it

in the time, and eventually came down near a little bush township, amid logs and stumps, and again was headlined by the flapper press. She got back to Sydney, eventually, and was much photo graphed and interviewed. The hard working pilots on the North Australian and New Guinea routes have had some thing to say about the performances of the fair airwoman; but what they said is unfit for publication.

Rev. S. R. M. Gill of the New Guinea Mission, has been appointed Archdeacon of Manba, Papua, with jurisdiction as far down the coast as Wanigela. Mr.

Gill is at present in Brisbane receiving medical attention.