Fatal Accident At Wewak

Death of Mr. Cliff Haydon

Asa result of a tragic aeroplane acci t\ dent, Mr. Cliff Haydon died at Wewak, New Guinea, on September ,9.

Three days previously he had been truck by the revolving blades of a itationary aircraft; head wounds were nflicted and in spite of skilled medical Mention he died without regaining con ciousness. Details of the accident are acking, but it appears that he was struck /hen he ran to the aircraft to throw side a blazing drum of petrol which /ould have set the plane on fire.

He was 31, the only child of Mr. and Irs. W. A. Haydon of Lae, NG, and an Id Territorian—he went to New Guinea /hen about 17.

In 1938 he joined Guinea Airways en ineering staff in Lae and was with that rm until the outbreak of war. He was member of the NGVR and later, in .ustralia, joined the RAAF; from which srvice Guinea Airways, in 1942, asked for is release. He was with them as a ground ngineer in South Australia and Northern 'erritory for a year and then joined NGAU and returned to the Territory.

On his release in 1946 he joined Man ated Airlines Ltd., at Lae as chief ngineer and 22 months ago went to ribbes Sepik Airways at Wewak where e remained until his death.

He had many friends in all parts of the erritory. His body was taken by air to ae for burial but before the plane left fewak a short ceremony was held. A nit of the native constabulary formed guard and a bugler sounded the Last ost as the casket was carried past raped in flags and banked with flowers.