Hydrographic
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Work Needed In
N.G. And Papua
From Our Own Correspondent
Rabaul, May 21.
Rear-Admiral H. J. Feakes, Who
was a recent passenger on the s.s.
Nellore from the East, expressed his sur prise that the Australian government had not undertaken hydrographic work in the waters surrounding the Mandated Terri tory and Papua.
Such work was essential, he asserted, for the progress of commercial shipping.
No survey work had been carried out in New Guinea waters—of any extent —since the German survey ships were at work before the War.
If up-to-date charts were made, stated Admiral Feakes, it would be a wonderful help to the mercantile ships navigating these waters from Australia to the East.
Only recently considerable delay was caused one of the Eastern lines at Samarai.