Another Drifter

BILE people who do raft-drifts from South America to French Oceania may now be legit ely regarded as corney—New tea has come up with a different on: A crocodile who did a Kon from the Sepik River to Aua id, in the Western Islands, a nee of about 200 miles. ie croc was only a baby—about it long—and was in poor condi when it arrived, giving the im iion that it had spent a long at sea. redo worms from the log had ;ked the belly-skin of the croco lonel Fray, who has been corn ding French forces in the Pacific, now returned to France at the iusion of his tour of duty.

tl Miss Hilary Coles, a lay teacher at the Mission of the Divine Word, Alexishaven, New Guinea, has re turned to that station after three months leave spent in Australia.

Tf Dr. Robinson arrived from Eng land recently with his wife and two children to take up his 3-year appointment as Norfolk Island Medical Officer.

t The helicopter imported by the Nickel Company of New Caledonia had its first trial flights in the Colony on February 29. The heli copter has no fusilage and its “cabin” is a plexiglass dome. The pilot is a veteran of Dien Bein Phu. The company will use the air craft for visiting mines and for carrying prospectors and supplies to isolated sites.