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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 November 1938Vol. IX, No. 4

Unknown Papua

p. 78 · Read in the full issue

Exploration Supported by Seaplane

From Our Own Correspondent.

Pt. Moresby, Nov. 4.

PREPARATIONS for the flight to re cently-discovered Lake Kutubu, and the carriage thereto of a further year’s supplies for the Police Camp, on the lake, are in progress. Accompanying the Lt.-Governor (Sir Hubert Murray) and other Government officials, will be three patrol officers of the Service Messrs. A. Timperley, A. Atkinson and J.

Bramell, who together, with Patrol Offi cer Adamson (already at the camp) will conduct a series of patrols further in land, using Kutubu as a base.

The seaplane will leave about Novem ber 15.