Extraordinary Way

Dredge Hand Killed in Extraordinary Way

From Our Own Correspondent WAU, April 2.

A MEMBER of the crew of the B.G.D. dredge at Bulwa, Mr. W. McDiar mid, met his death in an extraordin ary manner on March 22.

Coming off duty in the dinghy, he tried to cross over one of the mooring cables of the dredge. Pushing his dinghy beneath it, he put his leg over the cable, intending to step into the. dinghy on the other side of it.

Just as he did so, the dredge moved its position. This caused the mooring cable to tauten, lifting Mr. McDiarmid by his leg and throwing him, head first, into the water. Being in heavy mining attire, and being also unable to swim, he was drowned, in spite of many and valiant efforts by his dredge comrades to save him.

The water is very turgid, around these dredges, and it was a considerable time before his body could be located.

Captain and Mrs. Chris. Hill, of the New Hebrides, at present are spending a furlough in Sydney.

Mr, R. L. Chapman, a veteran New Guinea miner, is at present on a holiday visit to Australia.

Mr. C. L. Fenner, of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co, Ltd, arrived in Sydney recently from Fiji by the “Mariposa”. He was accompanied by Mrs.

Fenner.

Mr. David B. Smith, who spent over 30 years in Fiji in the service of Sturt, Ogilvie and Co. Ltd, and Morris, Hed strom. Ltd, died in Suva in March. He was 58 years of age and is survived by Mrs. Alma Smith and two children.

Mr. W. K. Carrington recently arrived in Port Moresby, Papua, from England to take up the post of drilling superin tendent with the Australasian Petroleum Company.

Rev. M. Frater, who lately retired from mission work in the New Hebrides, is en gaged on a biography of the late Dr.

Thomson Macmillan, of Tanna, New Hebrides.