Wewak, Ng

Plane Crash Near

WHEN Pilot John Da we, 26, of Gibbs Sepik Airways, crashed into the jungle at Worn near Wewak, Northern New Guinea, in mid-June, he was seriously injured and the Auster aircraft was wrecked. (Worn had the first aerodrome on the coast in the Sepik district (Maprik, over the range was made about the same time.) It consisted of one runway about the width of a road and was used by Mr.

Ray Parer and Guinea Airways Junkers at the end of 1936 and early 1937.) There is a Roman Catholic mission station near Worn; members of it rescued Dawe and took him in to Wewak where he was flown to Moresby.

He suffered a fracture of the leg and hand and also eye and head injuries.

Later he was flown to his home in Adelaide for further medical attention.

It will be some months before he is fully recovered.