Papua
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The Search For Oil in Papua
From Our Own Correspondent.
Pt. Moresby, Oct. 19.
13APUAN Oil Development Co. Ltd. are importing another vessel for use in the west of the Angas, an oil-fired steam lighter of 230 tons, with a length of 129 feet, beam 26 feet and a draught that can be trimmed for 5 feet. The vessel, which is expected next month from Sara wak will, it is understood, be manned by a crew of Malays.
This Company have installed one of the latest A.W.A. transmitting and receiving sets at Daru for their operations which will be open for service to the general public—another step forward in the mat ter of communication in Papua.
The advance party of the Oriomo Oil Co. arrived here early in October. The party comprise J. N. Montgomery (geologist-in charge), S. Warren Carey, M.Sc. (geologist) and W. P. Wilson Itopographer). The party will set out for their concession shortly after the arrival of the Company’s vessel, which is expected to arrive on ber 20 in charge of Captain L. Kingdom Other members of the company—additional geologists and a surveyor—will arrive at a later date.
Rev, A. J. Collocott, of Mordialloc, Vic toria, who was a Methodist missionary in Fiji in the 80’s, collapsed and died on November 14. He was 78.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gilmore, of Put Put Plantation, Kokopo, arrived in Sydney with their son Graham by the November Macdhui. They will remain in Australia until the New Year.