In Papua Helicopters are Commonplace

If Mr. Frank William Clark, school master of Levuka, Fiji, recently won £lO,OOO in a Tasmanian lottery.

II Owen Henry Maurice Scott, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Scott, of Suva, Fiji, was christened on March 16 at St. Luke’s Church, Laucala Bay, by the Rev. Dr. G. R.

Hemming. Godparents were Ratu George Cokobau, Mr. Geoffrey Edwards and Mrs. L. G. Usher.

Helicopters are as common around Port Moresby (and Papua's Gulf country) as buses in Suburbia. The little

bubble-helicopter (lower)

with rubber pontoons is now an old-timer. But the large "family model" (above) is a new importation. Two of these 300,000 dollar Sikorskys went into ser vice for World Wide Airways in March. A third machine had been damaged before delivery.

One of the Machines lost a rotor-blade flying around Moresby in March, but no damage was done to anyone on the ground, or to instructor or his pupil.