Strickland-Purari Area
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On Patrol Work
Jack Hides to Penetrate Strickland-Purari Area
From Our Own Correspondent.
Port Moresby, Oct. 1.
MR. JACK HIDES, Assistant Resident Magistrate, well-known for his re markable patrols into the interior of Papua and New Guinea, leaves Port Moresby next month by the “Vailala” for Daru, in the Western Division. From there he will undertake a lengthy patrol into the district between the upper reaches of the Strickland and the Purari.
He will be assisted by Patrol Officer O’Malley.
The upper reaches of the Strickland were first visited by Mr. C. H. Karius in 1927, in his first attempt to cross the island of New Guinea with Mr. Ivan F.
Champion, via the Fly and Sepik Rivers.
The district to be patrolled represents practically the only unexplored country in Papua.