Flying Nail Destroys Eye

Rubber Planter's Bad Luck

From Our Own Correspondent

Port Moresby, June 25.

AN unfortunate accident occurred at Kikori, in the west of Papua, on June 19. Mr. Gordon Marshall, man ager of Ogamobu rubber plantation, was opening a packing case when he was struck in the eye by a nail flying up wards and his eyeball was seriously in jured.

A radio message was sent to Port Moresby, and to Guinea Airways at Lae, and the same afternoon Mr. Marshall was brought in to Port Moresby by Stin son seaplane and admitted to the Euro pean hospital. Owing to the serious and

delicate nature of the Injury, it was de cided to send Mr. Marshall by air-liner to Sydney.

Mr. Marshall was taken to St. Vin cent’s Hospital, Sydney, and it was found necessary to remove the injured eye. He is making an excellent recovery.

This family had had its full share of bad luck. A few months ago, Mrs. Mar shall nearly died from blackwater fever.

She was saved by good nursing, and was carried from that plantation to the coastal steamer, and sent to Port Moresby and Sydney, where she was convalescing when her husband arrived.

Mr, W. Candler, well-known representa tive of Australian trading firms, was in Fiji in June on one of his periodical visits to the Colony.