A Swim At Any Cost!

THE locale of that old music-hall ditty “They’re tough, mighty tough, in the West”, might be changed to New Guinea. This reflection is occasioned by the story told to Sydney newspapermen by Captain G. J. I. Clarke, pilot of one of the W. R. Carpenter airliners running between Australia and New Guinea, when he arrived at the end of May.

Captain Clarke said that recently Mr.

M. Taylor, chief engineer for the W.R.C.

Air Service, found a crocodile in the river where he proposed to go swimming, so he killed it with one shot—then had his swim! Having cooled off, he re turned to the airliner nearby and non chalantly prepared it for departure, while the passengers who had witnessed the incident stood by in wide-eyed amaze ment.

Rev. C. S. Bull, formerly of the Bal larat (Victoria) Anglican Diocese, will shortly take up missionary duties again in Fiji, at Suva. He has been in Aus tralia on furlough, after serving for some time at Lautoka,