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American Expedition for Bismarck Range, N.G.
MR. ALFRED "TOWNSEND arrived in Sydney on August 27 from Chi cago by the steamer “Makura,” to make arrangements for an American expedition’s visit to New Guinea early in 1933.
Captain J. W. Harridine, consulting engineer to the American Steam Shovel and Tractor Company, will be in charge of the expedition, which will include doctors and anthropologists.
Operations will be centred about the Bismarck Ranges, where a search for gold and a geographical survey will be made. The scientific members of the party will study tropical diseases and
native psychology. The doctors will be from the Rush Medical College at Chicago.
A large aeroplane and scientific in struments are to be brought from America, but the rest of the outfit and a motor boat for the rivers will be bought in Sydney.
The Bismarck Mountains are on the
mainland of New Guinea, northwards of the Morobe goldfield. The range runs parallel with the Ramu River. This very rugged, broken country has had a great deal of attention lately from prospectors, who go in either from Salamaua, via the Markham Valley and the headwaters of the Ramu, or from Madang, via the Ramu River.