Papuan Radio.
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Inland Station Connects with Canberra.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Pt. Moresby, Nov. 28.
THE Lieutenant-Governor (Sir Hubert Murray) and his party, while on their recent north-east tour, walked from Buna to the inland station of Ko koda in the Owen Stanley Ranges, and back, a distance of 140 miles.
From Kokoda, His Excellency com municated by radio with the Prime Min ister at Canberra and received a reply the following day. This is the first oc casion on which an official wireless mes sage has been sent from an inland sta tion in the heart of Papua.
The wireless apparatus used is the property of Mr. M. Rich, A.R.M. at Kokoda.