New Catalina For Wrc
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THE second Catalina flying boat left this month for New Guinea services of W. R. Carpenter & Co., Ltd., and will be stationed at Madang. It has been named “Island Chieftain” and will be utilised in effecting staff > transfers and general inter-island communication.
Pilot Hugh Birch is in charge of the craft, and on its initial flight it carried several members of WRC staff for alloca tion in the Territory.
Burns Philp’s motor vessel, “Muli ama,” which was in their inter-island service in New Guinea waters before the war and which has been running between Sydney and Samarai since the war, was diverted to the Gilberts and Fanning Island in April. Passengers who sailed in her included Mr. H. L. Jones, for Tarawa; Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Cartland two children for Tarawa; Sister M.
Christina and Sister M. Leo for Tarawa: and Mr. K. Nicholson for Fanning Island.