Sepik Headwaters
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Search For Oil
Around
0 P. Moresby. May 16.
IL is where you . find it —and when you can get it—and some times the wait for it is a long one.
After a wait of 20 years, Enter prise of New Guinea Gold and Petroleum Development, No Liability, were granted their permit to search for oil in April.
Territory representative of the company, well known Territorian A. E. Jentszch, of Wau, with a geologist, in May made a visit to the permit area, w’hich covers 1,650
square miles at the headwaters of the Sepik. Its western boundary is along the Dutch border, and the area is generally situated roughly between Green River and Telefomin.
The initial visit was to survey future bases and possibilities of transport.
It is expected that a party will go into the area in Julv to start operations.
A week or two before the permit was granted, APC finished a survey in the Telefomin area. APC has all the areas south of the border sewn up. f Miss Heather Philp, of Fiji, flew to Sydney for the ball of the High School Old Girls’ Union on May 11.