That Report of Flow Oil
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in New Guinea
VARIOUS members of the Common wealth Parliament pointed out that an Australian company was prepared to finance and conduct an expedition into the interior of New Guinea to investigate a report that flow oil had been discovered there, and that the Government was not asked to undertake any expense whatever in connection with this investigation.
The new Minister for Territories, Mr.
McDonald, could only reply that the dis trict to which the company desired to go is in an “uncontrolled” area; there was an Ordinance in existence forbidding European entry into such an area; and he had been told in New Guinea that the report made on behalf of the com pany, that flow oil had been found in that district, was “too fantastic for words”.
Mr, Ernest Connelly, of Nadi, Fiji, died during the middle of last month, aged over 60. His family was very well known in Levuka, having settled there in the 70's of last century, and where Mr. Con nelly himself was born. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lizzie Connelly.