[?]Zaf Crash Victims
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[?]Elau Memorial For
rom Our Own Correspondent
Apia, Feb. 18.
Tokelau Memorial to the -ven New Zealand airmen ho were killed in a Catalina at Satapuala airport, Western , in December, 1950, was un at Megiagi Cemetery on try 17. rge gathering of Europeans a moans attended the cere- A special party of nine P personnel from New Zea- Iso attended. memorial, a granite obelisk nveiled by the High Corn ier, Mr. R. g. Powles, in the e of the visiting Minister for
NZ External Affairs, who was in disposed.
Those for whom the memorial has been erected were all members of the RNZAF. They lost their lives during take off for a routine night to the Tokelau Islands.
The islanders of that Group have provided the memorial in apprecia tion of the fact that the men died in maintaining communications be tween the Tokelau Islands and the outside world.
Recent staff transfers for Over seas Telecommunications Commis sion include Mr. V. Molineux and Mr. K. R. Clark, from Sydney to Suva, and Mr. M. W. Romans to Fanning Is.
Dr, W. E. Giblin, formerly a well known medical officer in Wau, New Guinea and now stationed at Nondugl (NG Highlands), returned to New Guinea in February after a 12-days visit to his wife, who is in hospital in Sydney. He reported that Mrs. Giblin now is making satisfactory progress.