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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1953Vol. XXIII, No. 12

Csiro Regional Survey

p. 37 · Read in the full issue

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P. Moresby, July 4.

A SURVEY team of CSIRO scientists arrived in the Terri tory in early July to make a natural resources survey in the Northern District of Papua.

This is the first stage in the long-term programme of assessing the natural resources of the whole of the Territory. The members of the party now working in the Northern District are: Mr. S. J.

Patterson, Geomorphologist; Mr. H.

A. Haantjens, Pedologist; Mr. B. W.

Taylor, Ecologist; Dr. R. G. Hoog land, Systematic Botanist.