Patrol Vessels In Dutch
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New Guinea.
FOUR police-cruisers for patrolling the coast and surrounding islands of Dutch New Guinea have arrived at their base-stations, Seroei (on Japan Is land in Geelvink Bay) and Hollandia (on the north coast of the mainland near the border).
Two of the vessels, the “Bogor” and the “Bantam”, arrived in January. Th,e other two came out from Holland in February.
Mr. Alan Villiers, the Australian writer and former owner-master of the little full-rigged barque “Joseph Con rad” which cruised through the Pacific in 1936, expects to reach Australia from U.S.A. in May to make a lecture tour describing the “Conrad’s” voyage. It is reported that “he hopes to earn enough money by his Australian lectures to finance an expedition to the South Sea Islands”.
Mr. L. F. Conde, of Burns, Fhilp and Co., reached Australia on furlough by the March, “Macdhui”, from Salamaua.