Progress Of Apc In Papua

THE Australasian Petroleum Company Pty. Ltd. reports that on March 1, drilling of the bore at Kariava, Papua, had reached 7654 feet depth drilled during March, 1947, being 734 feet.

The Grumman Widgeon Amphibian aircraft purchased by the Company to assist its exploration work in Papua- New Guinea has arrived in Sydney where it is being assembled and tested. After an Australian Certificate of Airworthiness nas been obtained, the aircraft will be flown to Port Moresby and operated and maintained by Qantas Empire Airways Ltd. on behalf of APC.

Mr. Frank Morgan, vice-president of the Richfield Oil Corporation, of Los Angeles, arrived in Australia in April to arrange a preliminary geological survey in Australia and Papua. He said he thought substantial oil deposits would be found.

Mr. Harold Bentley, who has been transferred from the staff of the Posts and Telegraphs Department. Fiji, to a similar post in Nyasaland, left Suva by the March “Matua” and will spend sev eral months in New Zealand before going to Africa. He was one of Fiji’s best cricketers, and before he left, mem bers of Fiji cricket clubs said good-bye to him, with reluctance, at an evening gathering in the Grand Pacific Hotel, Suva. .. J 11 !?' J ris Schmidt - who has re-estab lished her hairdressing salon in Rabaul visited Sydney in March and April, ac companied by her small daughter She expects to return to Rabaul at the end of this month.