Qantas Travellers To Papua-New Guinea

Among passengers who travelled to Papua-New Guinea by Qantas Airways in early May were the following: TOP: Mr. Frank Brenton on his way back to the Day Dawn mine at Edie Creek; he was farewelled by Mr. “Robbie” Robertson also well known on the New Guinea goldfields and now representative in Sydney for a number of mining companies. Lieut-Colonel J. S. Grimshaw, newly appointed Chief of Police in the Papua-NG Territory; he was Inspector of Mounted Police in Adelaide before the war and had a distinguished war record —he served with the 7th Division in the Middle East and the Islands, won the Military Cross in Greece and has the unusual distinction of having been Mentioned in Despatches no less than five times. Mrs. S. D. Barnes was on her way to Port Moresby en route to Gaima on the Fly River where her husband is attached to the Public Health Department.

LOWER: Mr. S. R. Crichton, of the PMG’s Department who has joined 9PA radio station in Port Moresby as a supervising technician. Mr. L. W. Young of Bulolo Gold Dredging Limited returning to Morobe, New Guinea after sick leave in Australia. Mr. R. Martin returning to Port Moresby where he is associated with the Saville brothers in an engineering business.