American Expedition For

Dutch New Guinea

From Our Own Correspondent

Papeete, June 2,

npHE schooner Ghiva, a 60-foot diesel auxiliary vessel from Philadelphia, recently arrived at Tahiti, via Panama Canal and the Galapagos Islands. She carried the Denison-Crockett Expedition under the auspices of the Philadelphia Academy of Science.

This party is headed for Dutch New Guinea where it will carry on research fox a year.

Members of the expedition are: Mrs.

Crockett (anthropologist for the Peabody Museum at Harvard University), Mr. Dil lon Ripley (ornithologist, who will col lect birds, plants and crustaceans for the Philadelphia Museum), Mr. Crockett (photographer, who will make cinema records of the expedition for a lecture tour), and Mrs. Lowndes (journalist).

Also on board were a sailing master, a cook, and one seaman.

The Ghiva made the voyage to Tahiti successfully and without incident. It was found, however, that she required extensive repairs, which delayed her at Papeete for some weeks.

Sister I. L. Lawrence, of Brunswick, Victoria, sailed from Melbourne for Suva by the Monterey on June 21. She is a nurse at the Dudley Orphanage conducted by the Methodist Mission at Bulkislia,

Fiji.