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J CAPTAIN HURLEY AND PARTY. COLLECTION DETAINED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 8.5 p.m.) SYDNEY. Feb. 6. Captain Frank Hurley's party has returned from a visit to Papua, where it accomplished much valuable exploration work with the assistance of a couple of aeroplanes. A fine ethnological collection | was obtained, intended for presentation to the Australian Museum at Sydney, but the Administrator refused to allow it Ito be shipped from Port Moresby on the (ground of certain alleged irregularities in i obtaining articles from the natives.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18317, 6 February 1923, Page 7
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