Island-bound in Ma

Travellers from Sydney to the New Hebrid[?] in May included Mr M. O'Connor, Inspect[?] for Burns Philo & Co , and Mrs. L. Bairstow who travelled by Qantas to Vila. Mr. Bairsto[?] is attached to BP's Vila staff.

Mrs. Oscar Newman, now resident in Sydney's farewelled her husband when he returned [?] Tisman Plantation, New Hebrides, by [?] last Qantas flyinq-boat flight.

Mrs. W. Tansey, travelling in the "Soochow to visit Mr. and Mrs. Colin Sefton, of Koital[?] Rubber Plantation, Papua, was farewelled [?] Sydney by friends Jillian Robertson, Kerr- Daley, and Michelle Gilkes.

Mr. and Mrs. W J. T. Mead, of Souti Australia, went north in "Soochow" to vis[?] their daughter, who is school-teaching at Po[?] Moresby, and their son, who is in the Ag[?] culture Department at Sohana, Buka Passage