Developments On Morobe
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Goldfield
From a Special Correspondent WAU, June 1.
MR. M. Leahy was in Wau recently, having left his brother Dan at Mt.
Hagen. He tells me that he has over 200 of the local natives working for him out there. Aerial freight to Hagen is now 1/per lb.; formerly, it was 2/3.
Mr. W. Royal has sold his tribute on the Koranga, near Wau, and has gone to the new Wewak field to work with his old mate, Dick Glasson. I hear that the Ramu-Purari contingent are leaving Wewak and returning to their old stamp ing ground.
On the Watut there is little change.
The Government is going to establish a post on the Tauri river, and Patrol-Officer Murray Edwards has left on patrol out there. The native population is very numerous —and they are “fighting fools.”