Pilot Walks Out
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fl Mr H T Duane fnrmerlv o'f f’ Iol jnerly w ell known at Niue, returned to Auck lancl m . November after several months In Tahiti. Mr. Duane is planning to establish a country hotel in the Punaavia District of Tahiti to cater for New Zealand and Australian tourists. He will re turn to Tahiti in February.
crash occurred on November 17 and on the l9th some native police-boys, the advance guard of the rescue party, found him. The following day Mr. Sebire, ADO, Kokoda, and Mr. Ben Hale reached him— thence began the long trek back to civilisation. The Fox Moth plane belonging to Papuan Air Transport, which he was flying, is a total loss. —Photo by Papuan Prints.
Pilot Frank Goosens, above, suffered only slight injuries when, en route to Kokoda and Popendetta from Port Moresby, his plane crashed in the dried up lake bed of Lake Myola. He decided to try and walk in search of aid from natives but got lost and would probably have remained so had he not found a disused telephone cable which led him back to the scene of the crash. The