Dutch New Guinea
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Many Plans for Development
UNDER the encouragement of the Dutch Government, there is much activity, proceeding and planned, in connection with the development of the rich but gen erally unknown resources of Dutch New Guinea.
We are informed that several com panies have either sent representatives to the Territory, or are getting ready to do so, in order to investigate possibilities of settlement, planting, goldmining, oil discovery, etc.
The well-known Dutch scientist, Dr.
W. C. Klein, representative of the New Guinea Committee established at The Hague a couple of years ago to assist the development of Dutch New Guinea, ar rived in Port Moresby at the end of April, in order to carry out a study of economic conditions in both Papua and the Man dated Territory of New Guinea, with a view to acquiring data which will be of use to his Committee.
Dr. Klein went on in the Dutch steamer to Rabaul, chief town of New Guinea.
He is accompanied by Mr. S. van Oosten, who has spent a year in studying New Guinea data at the Royal Colonial Insti tute in Amsterdam. They will remain a month in Rabaul and thence will proceed to the Morobe goldfields; and, after a few weeks there, will settle down for a fur ther period in Port Moresby.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Southey, of Vuni samaloa, Ba, Fiji, returned to Suva by the Niagara at the end of April, after residing for a month at Belvedere Guest House, Darlinghurst. While in Sydney Mr. Southey suffered from a serious attack of duodenal ulcers, which delayed his return to Fiji.