Illegally Exported!

A MAN at the Mascot aerodrome in Sydney, overhauling- one of the Car penter aeroplanes used in the Sydney-New Guinea air service, got the thrill of his life when he came upon a hornet’s nest, made of mud, plastered on the side of the ’plane. He investigated gingerly, and found a dead hornet inside.

He found “a bright object” in the nest; and the bright object, according to an excited newspaper paragraph, turned out to be specks of gold. His interest was communicated to others, who also were satisfied that gold had thus been illeg ally exported from New Guinea. Residents of New Guinea, however, are asked not to accept seriously any radio broadcast to the effect that passionate goldminers from Paddington and Surry Hills make a rush to Mascot aerodrome, now, when ever a Carpenter Airways ’plane arrives from New Guinea.