Surprising Charge

Well-known Flying Man Faces Surprising Charge

THE managing director of Trans-Oceanic Airways Ltd., of Sydney, Mr Bryan Wills Monkton, was brought before the Central Court, Sydney, on October 12, on a charge of malicious damage to a Catalina flying-boat, and was remanded to December 7, on £2,000 bail.

The charge arose out of an incident on the night of August 27, when a Qantas flying -boat, lying at Rose Bay, was de stroyed by fire, following a mysterious explosion. Investigation showed that a crude time-bomb had been 1 Monkton’s solicitor said that had a complete answer to the charge. He said the charge, which ( came hke a bolt from the blue,” was utterly fantas tic.”