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Papua
Prom Our Own Correspondent.
Pt. Moresby. Dec, 18.
INDEPENDENT observers, “secret ser vice agents”, and others, inform us that great activity is going on in the Kanosia district, where the Papua Oil Development Co. are at work.
The Company appear to have aband oned their western areas. though whether because they have or have not discovered oil is not known.
The presence of oil in the Kanosia district has been unsuspected hitherto: but the keen activity of the Company’s geologists and field staff suggest that they have definite hopes.
A.P.C. village, though not yet com plete, is partly occupied. The mess room and several cottages were placed in commission last week, and other buildings are still in course of construc tion.
Mr. E. G. Baker, 52, who was killed in a garage accident in Sydney in Novem ber, was Government Printer in Papua for 25 years, and retired in 1934. He founded the Port Moresby newspaper (now the “Courier”) in 1910. He was a man of great energy, with scores of in terests and hundreds of friends.
Mr. Runert Bellville. an English amat eur airman and his wife, arrived in Syd ney from Spain by the “Strathnaver” in mid-December, en route to Tahiti.