Oil To Be
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J. K. Murray Expects
Found In Papua
“T HAVE a layman’s belief that 1 oil will be found in commercial quantities in Papua, but it is a reasonably informed belief,” said Colonel J. K. Murray, in an article in the Brisbane Telegraph of July 23. He was Administrator of Papua- New Guinea from 1945 to 1952, and worked in close co-operation with the oil-seeking companies.
After remarking that the Papuan sil-seekers had spent £1 million per annum for several years, he added; : ‘A Dutch Minister to Australia once told me that £80,000,000 had been spent before oil was obtained in commercial quantities at Sorong (in Dutch New Guinea).
“There will be a big programme )f development ahead when oil lows in commercial quantities at i Papuan centre.”
With the eighth reinforce nents to the Fiji Infantry Battalion n Malaya went Mr. Rob Wright, r iji Public Relations Office photo rapher, to spend several weeks with he troops taking photographs.
The Rev. and Mrs. T. C. Crane ift Australia end of July for fission work among the Indians >f Fiji.