Canadian Magnetometer
p. 61 · Read in the full issue
Party In Papua
From Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, Jan. 25
SEVEN young Canadians arrived at Port Moresby in an am phibious Catalina early in January to carry out a magneto meter survey for the Australasian Petroleum Company and the Island Exploration Company Pty. Ltd.
Now they are operating over sections of Western Papua, and in their spare time getting a close acquaintance with swamps, croco diles, heat, mosquitoes and every thing else that crawls, swims or wriggles down in the Delta country.
They should be great boosters for Australians when they return home, for nobody can spend much time in Western Papua without acquiring a great respect and ad miration for the Europeans—in this :ase, mostly Australians—who live and work on the fringe of the swamplands.
They are seeing the antithesis of Canada’s great northern Barren Lands for the only barren quality ibout the Delta swamp region lies in its value to mankind unless, of course, oil is ultimately discovered inder the swamp or jungle.