Travellers to P-NG
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Arriving back in Port Moresby in early ere Mr. and Mrs. Mike Wood and son ir. Wood is store manager, Steamships Co., and a keen sailer with Moresby Club.
E: Mr. and Mrs. George Anthony Taylor rned to Rabaul on "Bulolo" in March.
A Taylor, GC, is a Volcanologist but i absent in Canberra since 1953. In t Lamington erupted causing great and loss of life at the Government of Higaturu and in the surrounding It was for his outstanding work in luring the eruption that Mr. Taylor the George Cross. Since 1953 Mr. las been working in Canberra on a »h dealing with the Mount Lamington and also working upon a theory of y of earthquakes and volcanic erup the South West Pacific area. ! connection he would welcome direct on any earthquake or volcanic ia from anyone within the Pacific io has been in a position to observe ngs. Any old records in private diaries be of particular interest to him. ress is: Vulcanological Observatory, Mrs. Taylor is a graduate of the Uni f Sydney, and before her marriage was isher Library at the University. : Mr. C. J. O'Neill (left) and Mr. J. V. who were passengers to New Guinea
on the March "Bulolo". Mr. O'Neill, of Korumburra, South Gippsland, Victoria, is a Stock Dealer, travelling with Mr. Barrow and two other friends, also from Gippsland. His party is visiting Papua-New Guinea in order to see for themselves exactly what are the possibilities for cattle, horse, sheep and, perhaps, pig breeding. At Port Moresby, Mr.
O'Neill saw the property of the Fairfax Cattle Company which is not yet stocked, and was tremendously impressed by the fetrility of the richer pockets of black soil in that area.
At the Lowland Cattle Experimental Station eight miles out of Moresby, he visited the different paddocks, and was impressed by the Jersey cattle; but the black Aberdeen Angus beasts were, in his opinion, "rather a mixed
lot". He was astonished to see the cattle standing in a dam up to their bellies in the water, as in Gippsland such behaviour would indicate that they were suffering from Pleuro pneumonia. He also saw some maize which he considered even better than the maize grown
in Gippsland.
.?■ s « d H ? was homfie(l *° see of ,h * native pigs.
It is a sign of the growing Australian interest in Papua-New Guinea that practical men are going to the Islands at their own expense to see for themselves what openings exist for an extension of the industries which they know best.