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Prom Our Own Correspondent P. MORESBY, April 10.
URING March, three members of the CSIRO Land Resources and Regional Survey team ived in the Territory to get some t-hand knowledge before start the field survey of the Buna ion. >r. R. D. Hoogland, the botanist the* survey team, is working in aboration with the Government est Botanist, Mr. J. S. Womers and is remaining in the Terri t until the Buna survey is corn ed. Messrs. B. W. Taylor (Ecolo ) and S. J. Patterson (geomor logist) returned to Canberra y in April to help draw up the is for the main Buna survey, ch starts in July, he actual field work at Buna occupy three months; and then ther nine months will be needed interpretation of the results of field work. This will be done Canberra. n his recent visit to the Terri the leader of the CSIRO sur team said it was not possible five any exact estimate of the ; needed for the full-scale sur of Papua and New Guinea, but
it could not be less than twenty years.