Oil Search In New
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Guinea
THE annual meeting of Oil Search Ltd. was held in Sydney in January. The chairman, Mr. W. A. Freeman, supplied shareholders with an interesting review of the company’s activities —mostly in Australia. Commonwealth co-operation is being sought.
Referring to New Guinea, Mr. Freeman said that the company’s geologists were unanimous in the view that that country merited major attention as offering op portunity for development of oil fields, comparable with some of the rich areas in the East Indies.
Mr. and Mrs. John Wadsworth arrived recently in Sydney from London, where they lately were married. Mr. Wads worth is director of the Apia Observa tory, in Samoa, and he has been away on six months’ furlough. Mr. Wads worth’s specialty is meteorology, and he was for 10 years with the Meteorological Office, London He has been director at Apia since 1930, and during the trip from which he is just returning he attended the International Meteorological Congress at Warsaw, Poland.