They Breed Them Tough
p. 129 · Read in the full issue
(and Lucky) in NG
ON the morning of Tuesday, April 20, Mr. Raymond J. Stock ton, a married New Guinea re sident, aged 30, left Lae in his Tiger Moth plane to fly miles north wards over the mountains of the Huon Peninsula, to Saidor, on the Rai coast.
When he had not arrived at Saidor by noon that day, an alarm was raised, and a land and air search commenced.
The search was interrupted by bad weather and, before it could be resumed on a wide scale, Mr.
Stockton arrived in Lae, two days after he disappeared.
He reported that he ran into heavy rain and fog over the moun tains and was forced down. There was no open ground available, and the plane “landed” in a tree. Mr, Stockton, uninjured, climbed from the tree and walked 40 miles through the jungle to the Huon Gulf coast. He eventually reached the Lutheran Mission station at Hopoi, and the missionaries there treated him hospitably and took him by launch along the coast to Lae. He was nearly two days with out food. if Senior Sister Badilia Mulckey, of the Samarai Hospital, Papua, has been transferred to Madang, NG, where she is Acting Matron in Charge.