Another Coronation
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Climb Baines Reaches Top of Mt. Victoria
From Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, July 30.
Mr. Charles Baines, A Tech
nician on the staff of the Post master-General’s Department at the ABC station, Fort Moresby, reached the summit of Mt. Vic toria in the Owen Stanleys on July 23 and affixed a Coronation plaque there.
This expedition was the realisa tion of a long-cherished plan by Mr. Baines who was on leave prior to transfer back to his home city of Brisbane after several years at Port Moresby. The main crag of the mountain is 13,363 ft; it was first climbed by Sir William MacGregor in 1888, during his term as Lieutenant-Governor of Papua. Since then several Euro peans have added Mt. Victoria to their list of alpine feats.
Progress reports of Baines’ climb were relayed to Port Moresby over his two-way radio from a base camp at 12,000 feet. He said the last 150 feet of the climb, up an almost sheer rock face, was the hardest part of the climb.
IF M. Henri Guillemot, Islands rep resentative for Ventura Trading Co.
Pty., Ltd., left Sydney by air on August 3 on a six weeks’ business visit to ‘New Hebrides and New Caledonia. tl Mr. John Hohnen, general man ager and a director of New Guinea Goldsfields Ltd., was in Sydney early in August.