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New Guinea

THE Secretary of the New Guinea Committee at The Hague, Dr. W. C. Klein, Min. Eng., is the editor of a book in three volumes about Dutch and Australian New Guinea, for which book he found 18 specialists willing to write the various chapters. Some of them know N. Guinea per sonally ; others were assisted by him with data, gathered on his trip to this island in 1935.

Volume I. was published during Dr. Klein’s trip to New Guinea, and it has chapters and rather extensive English summaries about Explora tion, Soil, Climate, Flora, Fauna, Population, Forests and Missions. It has 378 pages, 80 photo graphs and various maps, and the price is F 8.50, (f 1/3/6 Aust. approx.) bound. The publisher is de Bussy, Rokin 60, Amsterdam.

Vol. 1 was introductory. Vol. 2 appears in August, 1937, and deals with administration, mining, marine products, imports and exports, agriculture, navigation and radio. The price is F 9.50 and the number of pages is 450. Vol. 3 will deal with public health, colonisation by small European farmers, international position, land legislation, aviation, strategical position, labour legislation, and comparison of administration methods in Dutch and British New Guinea. Vol. 3, due in November, will have 350 pages, 80 photographs, an index and one big general map.

Mrs. Haviland, wife of Mr. A. R. Havi land, of the New Guinea Police Force, arrived in Sydney from Rabaul by the Montoro on June 19. .

Mr. Errington- Ford, of Mosman,

N.S.W., has announced his intention of sailing from Sydney shortly in a 23ft. sloop for Tahiti, accompanied by his wife.

He has already spent 20 years in the South Seas.