Another Plane
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Lost
New Guinea Air Accident
A SMALL Fox Moth plane, owned by the Glasson and Parer Syndicate and piloted by William Porgan Smith, left Salamaua for Wau at 3 p.m. on Mon day, November 6, and was seen to dis appear into dense clouds over the Black Cat Ranges, in the direction of Wau. It did not report into Wau drome that even ing and, during the two following days, November 7 and 8. search planes were out in all directions.
On November 8, Mr. Sutcliffe, from a Carpenter mailplane, saw the missing Moth down in the Bitoi Valley, and ground parties set out for it. They found Mr. Smith, uninjured. His plane crashed into a tree-top. He climbed down the tree, and started to walk to Salamaua.
The Boeing plane, recently imported to the Mandated Territory by the Glas son and Parer Syndicate, crashed in the Black Cat Ranges over a month ago and Pilot Hugh Bond was found near the plane after three days of search. He is still in hospital, in Wau, recovering from his injuries.
An accident occurred on October 22 near Port Moresby, Papua, when a motor truck driven by Master Foley, accom panied by two young friends (Robert Mustard and Kenneth Sinclair) got out of control on the main road near Koki, and ran over the embankment by the sea front, where the three boys were thrown out on to the rocky surface. All were taken to hospital. Foley had a broken elbow and Sinclair a lacerated scalp.