Sepik

Oil Search Around

Enterprise of NG is Under Way

Lae, Aug. 31.

•HE expedition organised by

Enterprise of New Guinea,

L, to go up into the Sepik untry and make a geological rvey, as preliminary to a search

r oil and valuable metals, is

w moving on. Enterprise

ally got its search permit a few rnths ago, after years of

iting.

rhe arrival here of the ketch ire, 53 ft long, 13 ft beam, 41 ft LUght, purchased in Cairns re itly, is hourly expected. Mr. A. E. itzsch, of Wau, representative of i Company in New Guinea, has :n waiting here for a week. He 1 have charge of the expedition, ich will consist of eight Euro ms (including a patrol officer of i Sepik District) half a dozen icemen, and 100 natives. The •ty, of course, includes scientists. . H. C. (“Shanghai”) Brown will pper the Tiare, and Mr. McGrath I have charge of the diesel engine, lost of the expedition’s gear sady is at Angoram, well-known )ik River port, where there is an strip. More will go up with the

Tiare. Angoram will be the main base, but the forward base will be somewhere near the Sepik’s junction with the October River; and thence progress will be made in smaller craft, to get in somewhere close to the Dutch border.

Another vessel, about the size of the Tiare, has been chartered.

Among the equipment are modern scientific instruments, including Geiger counters. It is likely that the survey will take six months.

Recovery After Bad

Accident

Mr. Jentzsche, 60 years old, has made a remarkable recovery from the accident he met with several months ago when he, Mrs. E. J. A.

Kuper and a native, in a jeep, fell some 200 feet over a precipice on

the Edie Creek Road—his internal injuries were so severe that Dr.

Giblin gave him little chance. But all he has to show for it now is an eye that is slightly distorted in shape and vision. Mrs. Kuper, a young woman, suffered spinal in juries and is still in Brisbane Hos pital. She is returning home soon, fairly well recovered, but with a permanent limp. The native suf fered broken limbs, but recovered. fl After 26 years, the Rev. Sau Faupula, a Tongan Methodist min ister, made his second visit to Ballarat, Vic., in July to attend the Methodist Overseas Mission Festival. He is headmaster of Tupou College, for 400 boys, in Tonga.

Tiare.