New Guinea
p. 41 · Read in the full issue
Exploration Of Unknown
Taylor Patrol Report, 1st Section —Great, New Plateau for European Settlement —Expedition Marches Off Into Unknown Region.
IT is typical of the manner in which the Australian newspapers treat the great territory of New Guinea, that they published only a few paragraphs from the preliminary report of Mr. J. L.
Taylor, A.D.0., who carried out a remarkable patrol , in country hitherto practically unknown, in 1938-39.
The report was released to the press in February, and it con tains so much material of general interest, and of unique scienti fic value, that arrangements have been made to publish the whole of it, in four sections, in the “Pacific Islands Monthly”, in March, April, May and June.
It was J. L. Taylor, in co-operation with the famous Leahy Brothers, who discovered , explored and mapped the magnificent plateau, known as the Bena Bena-Wahgi-Purari-Mt. Hagen country , in 1933. This region lies east of Mt. Hagen. In their 1938-39 Patrol, Mr. Taylor and Patrol Officer John Black, assisted by Medical Assistant C. B. Walsh, penetrated the hitherto un mapped region westwards of Mt. Hagen.
Patrol Officer J. R. Black, Assistant District Officer J. L.
Taylor (leader of the expedition), and Mr. C. B. Walsh, Medical Assistant.