Kutubu

Champion Patrol at Lake Kutubu

From Our Own Correspondent

Pt. Moresby, July 12.

WORD has been received by radio that the patrol, led by Mr. Claude Cham pion, which is investigating the trade routes that link up the tribes of Central Papua in the west, arrived at Lake Ku tubu on June 28, and the party has already established a temporary base camp on the western shore of the lake, by Wasemi Island.

The party is in excellent health, and has 50 days’ supplies in hand. The mem bers have been well received by the natives, who supply them with food stuffs in exchange for trade goods. It is understood that the patrol will work its way north-west, and connect up with the former patrol which, led by Jack Hides, entered the valley of the Tari-Furoro, where it is thought the trade route runs from the Mobi and Lake Kutubu.

Patrol-Officer F. N. Anderson is associ ated with Mr. Champion in this patrol.

He is the son of Captain Anderson, the well-known skipper of the Papuan Chief.