Radiophones
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Link Up Outposts in Papua
From Our Own Correspondent.
Port Moresby, Nov. 1.
jyjß. C. E. SEARLE, of Amalgamated Wireless, has just returned from the interior of the Central Division, Papua, where he has installed a radio telephone at the recently established Goilala Police Camp, three days’ journey from the old Camp at Monda, not far from the border, where unruly natives still indulge in inter tribal warfare.
Mr. Searle journeyed on foot from Ka nosia and Aroa, whence he made for the mainland opposite Yule Island. Thence he travelled inland for 100 miles over broken country, where ranges tower one above another and torrents wind tortu ously in and out of precipitous ravines, until he reached the remote station of the Sacred Heart Mission and eventually the Po’ice Camp. Two officers of the magis terial force maintain law and order there.
Radio receiving sets and radio tele phones have now be&n installed in all the remote districts of the Territory by Amal gamated Wireless, and daily communica tion is maintained. This service has done much for the lonely settler. When one can keep touch with world events and daily happenings in the country, isolation has much to commend it.