Hundres Search
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Mystery in Papua.
For Man
In Thick Forest
fpHE most intensive search ever organised in the Port Moresby region had failed, by September 9, to find Peter Millar, aged 23, an electrician of Christchurch, New Zealand, who had been working at Port Moresby and was lost on August 21. Millar was with a shooting party in thick jungle country round the Brown River.
On September 3 an Aboriginal blacktracker from Queensland arrived at Port Moresby to aid the hundreds of searchers, who included Papuan police and members of the Pacific Islands Regiment On August 27 more than 500 Papuans and Europeans were scour ing the forest and swamplands, and throughout the following week at least 200 men maintained the search.
A Tiger Moth aircraft was also at work and a helicopter was stand ing by. Amateur radio operators were maintaining constant com munication between the search headquarters on the Brown River and the Moresby Police Station.
THE Central District Commis sioner (Mr. Alan Timperley) said on September 3 that he and a group of Goilala searchers had seen Millar’s footprints several times. One set of his prints was superimposed on those of the search party and another set crossed the searchers’ tracks.
At this stage Millar’s tracks appeared to be only an hour or so old. t The Kilbirnie Cricket Club, Well ington, NZ, will send a team to Fiji in February.