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Pacific Islands Monthly, 17 October 1947Vol. XVIII, No. 3

Ng Scholarship

p. 66 · Read in the full issue

Fund

DONATIONS to the New Guinea Memorial Scholarship Fund received by the secretary of the Fund, Miss Dorothy Stewart, of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Rabaul, during September were:— Acknowiedged to August si, 1947 . £3,382 17 o Mrs. Eve standen, Bamu River Mission, Bamu River, Papua 200 Mrs. c. g. Carpenter, Kui Kui, Marangis Plantation, Kar Kar island, Madang 220

Frank and Ellen Green, c/o P. H.

D. Gasmata 2 2 0 Total to September 30 £3,389 1 0 Mr. Percy Blanden is expected to return to his position of Warden at Wau, New Guinea, at an early date. He has made a quick recovery from the severe injuries which he suffered in a unique air acci dent in New Guinea several weeks ago.

Mr. and Mrs. Blanden were in an aero plane which crashed in the mountains between Wau and Lae, and they spent a whole night imprisoned in the ’plane, in a tree-top, before they were rescued.