New Guinea Notes

The managing director and cha man of the New Guinea-Borneo Ms grove Company, Mr. R. C. Dolb« told pressmen in Australia in Octob that his Company now planned establish its works in the delta of t Kikori River, in Western Papua. T!

Company extracts cutch (used in ta ping) from the bark of the mangrc trees. This is an important additii to the industries of P-NG. * * * Ihe London Salvage Association party of divers, under Captain I. T Herd, has now definitely located aj marked the spot where the Drov aircraft crashed into the sea, thn miles south of Lae, New Guinea, - July 16, 1951. The divers have df covered parts of the wreckage of ti plane, and some passengers’ luggag and they hope to find at least son of the Bulolo bullion the plane wi carrying, estimated to have be: worth £30,000. The water is aba 100 feet deep. The pilot and s passengers were lost. =i= * * Following the arrival in Papua four senior officials of the Vacuu Oil Co., it is believed that the fc oil interests which have been pn ceeding with the oil search in tH part of New Guinea for many yea will either announce soon that t: prospects justify them in continuii the search, or that the enterprise w be abandoned.

It was announced in October <> behalf of the Government that Au tralia had not given serious consi eration to the suggestion of the pu sident of the Returned Soldi©: League that Australia should try buy New Caledonia from Franc New Caledonia has been a unit the French Empire for a century, ai Ministers said there was no indicate whatever by France that the To ritory was for sale. Similarly, suggestion that Australia should pu chase Western New Guinea frot Holland has not been actively pursue ••:< * « A Medical Department officii William Mervyn Creighton, who ws sentenced by a New Guinea court ? 4\ years’ gaol for criminal assail upon a native woman, while in An bunti hospital (Sepik River) will a* peal to a higher Australian Courtl Messrs. Tom and Dan Leaht young men in their twenties, ait nephews of the famous Leahy brother who pioneered the New Guinea Higs lands; have taken up land in tl: Markham Valley area of N© Guinea. They are now planting the first crop of 100 acres of rice.