Patrols Active.

Officials Busy In N.G.

Goldfields Area.

From Our Own Correspondent.

Salamaua, July 3.

FOLLOWING the fatal wounding of A.D.O. Ian Mack, last month, in the uncontrolled Ramu area, there has been considerable activity in Adminis tration circles.

District Officer E. Taylor visited the area immediately after the wounding of Mr. Mack and reported that all was quiet in the affected district. Additional officers have been posted to the Morobe district, however, and an additional force of picked native constabulary trans ferred here.

Mr. Chinnery, Director of Native Af fairs and District Services, arrived on the "Macdhui” and, after a visit to the Ramu post, is now travelling round other out stations.

Most of the recently appointed cadets have been posted to this district and are at present undergoing training prior to being attached to the several posts.

The Administrator, General Griffiths, is due to arrive by air from Port Mores by on July 7 and will spend a fortnight touring the district. The gesture is most acceptable, as the miners will have an unprecedented opportunity of placing their several causes before His Honour.

There is great satisfaction, too, in the move by the Administration in affording protection to prospecting parties.

Two prospecting parties have already left the Ramu and Purari Rivers, each with a patrol officer and native police.

Preparations are in hand to despatch prospectors nominated by the Edie Creek Progress Association from Sur prise Creek, accompanied by a police patrol, to prospect the auriferous belt, round the Vailala, Langamar and Tauri Rivers.

Patrol Officer McCarthy, who was re cently wounded near Surprise Creek, is to leave first to establish a base and aerodrome near the Tauri River.

Mr, E. J. Wauchope, of “Awar,” Ma dang, New Guinea, a well-known planter, and Mrs. Wauchope, are at pre sent on a visit to Sydney. They will re turn to the Territory in August.