Santo To Sydney With
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A Sick Boy
DONALD PIETZ, the 7-years-old son of Pastor A. D. Pietz of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission, New Hebrides, was flown from Santo to Australia on October 13. The boy had been ill and in a coma for seven days.
A US Army plane picked Pastor Pietz and his son up in Santo. The plane flew direct to Brisbane where the lad was put on a plane for Sydney. In Sydney he was rushed to hospital in an attempt to save his life.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Jones and their two children left Brisbane for Suva by Qantas flying-boat on October 7. Mr. Jones, who wiil be attached to the British Colonial Service in Fiji was, in prewar days, in the Government service, New Guinea.
After living 19 years in Fiji, Sergeant F. W. Nichol passed through Brisbane recently in the Qantas flying-boat “Cori olanus,” on his way home to Sydney.
Sergeant Nichol, who was educated in Fiji, was employed by a building firm when war broke out. He served six years in the Fiji artillery.
W/O R. J. S. Kerkham, of the RAF Fiji contingent, was a passenger on the Qantas flying-boat for Suva on October 7/ He will resume his pre-war job with a merchant firm. During the war, he saw service in Burma.