Another Mercy Flight By RNZAF
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In Fiji
Ssuva, Feb. 20
UPPLIES of penicillin were rushed to Lakeba, Lau Group, Fiji by RNZAF Catalina on February 17 in the latest cf the Air Force “mercy flights” in Fiji.
The package of penicillin, urgently needed for a case of meningitis, was dropped in the middle of Tubou, the main village of Lakeba.
Proni a New Zealand correspondent: Mrs. Florence Gofton Stewart, who is stili trying to re-establish her hotel business m war-torn New Guinea, is another Terntones woman who deserves Birthday Honours. She must have lived 40 years in Papua and New Guinea, and she still
seems fit and well. I well remember the day when her son Moresby was born—he was killed early in World War ll—and I also knew and esteemed his father, Harry Gofton. I was present at the marriage of J w Baldie to Mrs Stewart’s sister it seems a long time a|o.”