For Oil
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£578,000 Spent In Search
INCLUDING £25,000 contributed by Britain,' the Commonwealth Govern ment has spent £578,000 in prospecting for flow oil in the Territories and Aus tralian States, the Prime Minister (Mr.
J. A. Lyons) told the Leader of the Oppo sition (Mr. J. Curtin), in the House of Representatives in March, The expenditure consisted mainly of: Boring in Papua prior to 1926, £364,505; geologicg.l survey of New Guinea, £4,285; and expenditure in both Territories and Australian States from appropriation pro vided by the Petroleum Prospecting Act, £207,000.
Sir Henry and Lady Scott returned to Suva, Fiji, by the Aorangi on March 6, after a short holiday in New Zealand.