Answers: Mclntosh

and Didimans

A brisk if somewhat acid letter from Miss Marie Egan, of Rabaul, has enlivened matters this month, and set us right on a couple of points. She says, inter alia, that she is still one of PlM’s most con sistent readers —and still agrees with about half of what we say.

She proceeds: “In November issue you enquire the whereabouts of Lt. J. C. Mclntosh. (P. 37). He was killed in an air crash, probably in the late 20’s, for when I met his widow, in the mid-30’s, she had married again and had three small children. Mclntosh’s own son,

John, was taken in tow by Lt and, as I remember him. lookelj like the photograph of his fit He later went to Point Cook (T training base in Victoria) and haps found his vocation. I wondered whether we would la him during the war.

“Mclntosh’s widow marriefc mechanic, Townsend, and thu pression hit them Very badly! told me that the crash V caused Mclntosh’s death had: caused by a drunk mail nuisance of himself: 10/- you’ll remember, being custfc jobs for our pioneer airmen 1 tween their trail-blazing. I see remember that the crash occ; near Geraldton, WA; the fams in Albany at the time of wi write.”

Miss Egan also has somethji say about “didimans”—Pidgai gardener. A German readel gested (Nov. PIM ), that in hisi it was pronounced “radidiffl Miss Egan says that in Blancll dialect, “ra” means “the”—e/ baul, the swamp. Could didk also be a native word, andp no relation at all to a 1 what mythical German bot® gardener?