L Company In Nng Uses
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Helicopters
From Our Own Correspondent
Hollandia, Jan. 1.
HE Netherlands New Guinea Petroleum Company at Sorong recently received three small licopters, the first in Dutch New linea.
The planes will be used in the w oil-fields on West New Guinea’s )gelkop Peninsula. The oil wells ch as those at Tasian and Mugoi, well as at Steenkool (where the wage tanks are built) are miles )art.
The new helicopters will be valu )le in this almost trackless country -they can be used as well for
transportation of geological investi gation-parties which have to be moved quickly.