"Grand Valley"
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"Shangri-La" is Archbold's "Grand Valley"
rE American Museum of Natural His tory, New York, has been good enough to send us documents and photographs which show, beyond any doubt, that the “Shangri-La” Valley, in Dutch New Guinea, into which an American transport plane crashed last Ma.y, and the “Grand Valley,” discovered and explored by the Richard Archbold Expedition, in June, 1938, are one find the same. Twenty Americans were killed when the plane crashed, but three were rescued, eventually, in gliders, which were hooked up by planes passing low over „ Ac tually, the Archbold seaplane Guba alighted in river water in the valley in 1938, and thus facilitated the exploration.
Miss P. Brokenshire, who has been in charge of the Ballantine Memorial School for Fijian girls in Suva for many years, arrived in Auckland in November for leave.
In Sydney, in October, a New Guinea evacuee, Mrs. Cecilia Josephine Smith (41), formerly Macdonald, nee Mackenzie, 54 Darling Point Road, Darling Point, was granted a decree nisi against Russell Goudy Smith (47), New Guinea goldminer, on the grounds of his adultery with Helen Griffin, at Salamaua, Port Moresby and Brisbane.