Sepik Oil Search
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A PARTY of nine Europeans and 40 or 50 natives will soon be searching for oil in the upper 3epik district of New Oumea. Key aersonnel left Melbourne on June 20.
The party will make an initial survey of the prospecting area 'ranted to Enterprise of New
N*L nea Petroleum Development Services of a Government geologist have been lent to the party, and the Territory Adminis tration has made available a patrol officer and six native constables.
Manager of the company, Mr.
A. B. Kaines, said an aerial survey made in May indicated that there
was little population in the northern and western sections of the area, and that they expected little trouble.
U The engagement was announced in Sydney early last month of Miss Sally Lynch, of Glen Innes, NSW, to Mr. Donald Seton, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Carden Seton, of Choiseul and Guadalcanal, BSIP.