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Papua.
AN Australian company, “New Guinea Expedition,” formed for the purpose of making a feature travel picture, will leave Sydney on July 20 by the “Macdhui” for Port Moresby. There they will join a coastal vessel and proceed to the Delta division of Papua, with Kikori as headquarters, to film the Stone-Age part of Papuan life, with natural sound.
The expedition will travel up various rivers to territory scarcely visited by white men other than Government of ficials. It will also visit Yule Island, and make an inland trip to Mafulu for pictures of the early days of gold-mining and pigmies from the interior.
Among the other spots to be visited are Wau, centre of gold-mining activi ties in the mandated territory, Rabaul and Samarai.
The personnel of “New Guinea Ex pedition” is:—Leader and producer, Major H. Gratton Guinness; guide, Cap tain A. Liston Blyth; cameramen, Messrs. Eric Bierre and Leslie Rowson. —S. Sun, 11/7/33.