Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 21 February 1938Vol. VIII, No. 7

To Investigate Papuan

p. 25 · Read in the full issue

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Oilfield.

Mr. Launcelot Owen, A Noted

English geological expert, left Syd ney by the “Macdhui” on February 2 for Papua to make a complete inves tigation of the area in which Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum Co. Ltd. is seeking an oilfield.

The Pacific Islands are not unknown to Mr. Owen—he spent the period be tween 1911 and 1914 on work connected with the phosphate deposits on Ocean Is land and Nauru.

During the war he served as an offi cer in the Tunnelling Corps and was awarded the M.C. Since then he has carried out geological and general oil field development in a number of coun tries, having been eight years in Colom bia and three years in Venezeula. Geo logical surveying for oil has claimed his attention in recent years, and he has made several trips to the Near and Mid dle East.

Mrs. C. G. Rutledge, wife of the man ager of Cuthbert’s Misima Gold Mine,

Misima Island, returned to Papua by

the “Macdhui” early in February.

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