Far Up The Sepik
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N.G. Administrator on Patrol
A COLOURFUL report in the Sydney newspapers on October 14 said that the Administrator of New Guinea, General W.
R. McNicoll, was at that time “300 miles up the Sepik River,” at Wogamush, on the fringe of administrative control; and that His Honour, by means of “pedal wireless,” was maintaining contact with civilisation.
The report said that on October 11, “while surrounded by the primitive natives
of Wogamush,” the Administrator was re ceiving news of world events from Berlin and San Francisco.
His Honour, travelling on his motor schooner Hermes, and accompanied by Mr.
McCarthy, A.D.0., continued on up the Sepik, into lesser known country.
Wogamush, incidentally, is not 300 miles up the Sepik. It is about 150 miles from the mouth of the river, and some 45 miles above Ambunti.
This Sepik region is likely to receive a good deal of attention in the next year or two, on account of the activities of Dutch exploring and prospecting expeditions, just across the border.