Flying Saucer over Aitutaki?
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tl Dr. John Stirling Hogg has been appointed Senior Medical Officer, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, and will leave the United Kingdom in January to take up the appoint ment.
II Dr. Helen Phillips, who recently spent four and a half years as medical officer in the Gilbert Islands, is now the first woman medical officer to schools in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Her field of operations covers the whole of this vast area and will in
volve long flights between one scl and the next. Dr. Phillips’ husb£ Captain Thomas Milner, is in c< mand of a vessel plying beta Darwin and Sydney. During wife’s stay in the Gilberts, he captain of a ship trading in islands.
The cheery optimist who sent this to PIM writes: “This is positively the first Flying Saucer to be spotted in the Islands.
This one was snapped as it sneaked over Aitutaki lagoon just after a TEAL air craft had taken off for Tahiti. Mr. C.
Dixon, standing on the stern of the CAA launch in the foreground, appears quite unperturbed. TEAL launch in the distance.’’ Our friend assumes that even a pinhole camera cannot lie.