Satapuala Air Crash
pp. 39-40 · Read in the full issue
Memorial to Victims of Satapuala Air Crash
From Our Own Correspondent APIA, July 5.
A MEMORIAL to the seven mem xi bers of No. 5 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force, who lost their lives in an air crash at Satapuala air port last December is to be erected shortly at Magiagi Cemetery, Apia.
The memorial is to take the form of a stone pylon bearing a memorial plaque.
The RNZAF Catalina had taken off for an official flight from Samoa to the Tokelau Islands when the disaster occurred. The people of the Tokelau Islands have contributed £35 towards the cost of the
memorial. Employees of the Public Works Department of Western Samoa, the Assistant Engineer of which, Mr. H. Cole, was one of the survivors of the accident, have provided free labour for its erection.
The retiring Governor-General of New Caledonia, M. Coumarie, the president of the General Council, Monsieur Bonneaud, and other prominent citizens of Noumea were recently present at a reception to the newly installed Consul of Indonesia in Noumea, M. Soesetio who arrived in the Colony in May.
He has since been joined by his wife and family of five. He was formerly a member of the Indonesian Ministry of Public Works and visited Noumea in 1950 as a member of the Indonesian labour mission.
Captain A. S. Fitch, of Neutral Bay Sydney, was married in July and in early August, he and Mrs.
Fitch were in Alice Springs, in the centre of Australia. They are making a leisurely journey overland by car, to Darwin. Some three years ago, Captain Fitch retired from the managing-directorship of Steamships Trading Co., Ltd., of Papua,
which he founded, and brought suc cessfully through the war. The first Mrs. Pitch died in London last year, when she and Captain Fitch were on a visit to Europe, :: „ , :: , . A Pastor E. C. Lemke, of the SDA Missionary College at Bautama, Papua, was in Perth, WA, on leave in July.