Overland Droving
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In N. Guinea
Is This the Dawn of a New Cattle Industry?
From Our Own Correspondent WAU, March 28.
WHAT is the biggest undertaking in cattle-droving ever undertaken in New Guinea is now under way.
Mr. C. Blake and two assistant drovers left Wau this week for Madang, going overland, to collect there and drive to the Goldfields some 200 head of cattle.
With mounts and pack-horses, and some twenty natives, the party set off from a starting point near Bulwa.
The distance to be covered is at least 300 miles, and a track will have to be blazed in many parts of the route — although there are stretches of rolling kunai country which will afford good grazing for horses and cattle.
The cattle have been purchased by Mr.
Alan Fuller, to be —as far as can be gathered—a food reserve for Morobe Goldfield in case of emergency.
Many rivers will have to be crossed en route and some high ranges nego tiated.