EXPLORATION IN PAPUA
VALUABLE WORK ACCOMPLISHED (Rec. February 5, 8.5 p.m.) Sydney, February 5. Captain Frank Hurley’s party has returned from a visit to Papua, where it accomplished a lot of valuable exploration work, with the assistance or a couple of aeroplanes. They secured a fine ethnological collection, which they intended to present to the Australian Museum at Sydney, but were not allowed bv the Administrator to ship from Port Moresby, on the ground that certain irregularities were alleged to have occurred in securing the articles from the natives.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 120, 6 February 1923, Page 7
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