American Expedition for Dutch

New Guinea

COMMANDED by Mr. Frederick Croc kett, a former member of Admiral Byrd’s expedition to the Antarctic, the American yacht Chiva sailed from New York for Dutch New Guinea, with a small party of scientists aboard, on November 28.

The expedition will study the D.N.G. natives, under the auspices of the Phila delphia Academy of Natural Sciences.

David Mone, of Tonga, and Ropate Varo, of Fiji, who have been visiting the vari ous Australian States, doing deputation work for the Methodist Mission, left Sydney in December on their way back to the Islands. During their several months’ stay in Australia they created a very favourable impression by their manly sin cerity and attractive personalities.