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Jack Hides’s Book Welcomed in London
''THE London Press prominently reviews A the book by the Papuan Assistant Resident Magistrate, Mr. Jack Hides, en titled “Papuan Hinterland,” published by Blackie and Co. Ltd., said the London cor respondent of the Sydney Telegraph on May 12.
The Evening Standard says:—“This modest account of a journey which has been acclaimed as the most notable of modern times adds pages f to Australian his tory. It tells the story of eight months of struggle against obstacles, including battles against cannibals, starvation, sick ness, and the terrible limestone barrier.”
Mr. Hides carried out an arduous survey of an unknown country between the Strick land River and the Purari River.
Rev. A. Stanley Jones, L.Th., left Syd ney for Kabakada. New Britain, for tl\e Methodist Missionary Society by the April Macdhui.
Mr. F. E. Williams, anthropologist to the Papuan Government, will leave Port Moresby in June to represent Papua and New Guinea at the Conference and Seminar of Education in Pacific Countries to be held in Hawaii from June 27 to August 7.