NG Patrols Successfully
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Undertaken
THREE important patrols have recently been completed in New Guinea.
The first, by Patrol Officer C. J.
Normoyle, lasted five weeks and was from Mumeng, on the Wan- Labu road, to Kainantu in the Eastern Highlands. This south eastern corner of the Highlands is little known and he contacted many new villages.
The second was north-west of Wabag, in the Highlands, and traversed the Upper Tarua and Wale River valleys. Some of the natives were being visited a second time; others had never before seen white men.
The third patrol, by Patrol Of ficer J. Worchester and Cadet Patrol Officer G. Jansen-Muir, was into the Asai Valley, 100 miles south-west of Madang and adjacent to the new patrol-post at Aiome.
The valley, with a population of about 3,000, is one of the larger pockets of population in the Schrader Ranges. This was the second patrol into this area.