Accident Near W. Samoan
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APIA. June 24.
A SERIOUS accident occurred on June 20, on the West Coast Road, when the post office car, driven by Apia post master, Mr. T. T. C. Humphrey, collided with a Public Works lorry. The post office car had just picked up mail and pas sengers from the incoming New Zealand plane and was only two miles from Faleolo airport when the collision occurred.
All passengers were hurt, some seriously.
They were treated at Apia hospital. The post office car was completely wrecked.
Major E. B. Ayris was among Terri torians who returned to New Guinea by the ‘“Montoro” in July. Until the Jap invasion, he was a resident of Wau, in charge of New Guinea Goldfields labour.
Subsequently, he performed good war ser vice, in the Small Ships, and as an officer of the Merchant Navy. His headquarters will be Lae, for the present.
Mr. H. G. Marshall returned to New Guinea by the July “Montoro.” He was in Papua for years, as a member of the Oriomo Oil Search staff; and subsequently he went to New Guinea, and was a well known goldminer in the Morobe district when the Japanese came in 1942.