Weekend Excursion

The Story Of A

Pleasant

P. Moresby, July 20

ON Monday, July 14, a launc

and a Norseman aircraft wer out looking for three men who wer out in a borrowed dinghy on Sunday Two were found at Fisherman’s Is land, and the other two at Porebadj three miles beyond the far reache of Fairfax Harbour.

Two of them, Michael O’Brie and Frank Anderson, on Sunda; had a look around the airstrip whii James Davidson, having no shoe waited on the beach.

Davidson slept. On awakeninj he saw their dinghy already sorn distance from the shore. He swai to the dinghy, boarded it, sat dow to recover his breath (while the ra: drifted) and then attempted to ri the sail.

The other two returned to tl beach to witness what they believe was their perfidious friend settir sail for the mainland.

Davidson had never sailed a boj before. Soon after his attempt 1 rig the sail the boat capsized. Neith( of the two men on the island coul swim as far as the boat. The bo« drifted away, with Davidson din] ing to it.

O’Brien and Anderson, hungi and miserable, were picked up ne: morning by searching police, in launch, Davidson and the dinghy wei carried by currents to a reef aboi 12 miles from Porebada. He wj sighted there by two native Rov< Scouts, Morea Dairi and Dairi Gegi who were out in a canoe fishin] about 1 p.m. on Monday. The took him to the native Scoutmaster house at Porebada, where he w{ fed and given dry clothes.

By now both police and Mr. V Wyatt, Junr., owner of the dingh; were out searching—police in tl Norseman and Mr. Wyatt on motor cycle to Porebada, where Y figured the current would take th boat. He was right. He foun Davidson finishing his fifth cup c tea.

The police, in language notab for its restraint', have again aske the people of Moresby to try an avoid getting themselves lost c stranded during week-end excursion Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Fulton, wit: their two young daughters, Man and Elizabeth, returned to the:: New Britain plantation from Me 3 bourne on the August Bulolo.