NEW IRELAND.

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NEW IRELAND.

NEW ; IRELAND" lies close- and prac tpjaliy• at right angles to ztorthern end of New Britain,

. ISLAND - is two. hundred, miles long with an average width of twenty miles, ‘ •

RIVERS «♦ there are no rivers of. any slab* •

/ VOLCANIC- appearances so. evident in New tain. arc • not 'in evidence Ireland. ; <7

COASTLINE - is unbroken. There re four main harbours* KAVX3NG ■ in the . north; NAMATANI, about; id-island and . ’WLIAJCA in • the outh, all on the wo st; coast. On he East coast ,is jKalili, ' r ‘

KAVIWG - de sc ribo d aS «, an attractive little town " which is only 126»mllos from RABAUL • ■, t is the main . port of the . ’ c island, The administrative offob and , stores " are scat to rod ddsiy, About a mile from ; the.:.. zhaff vth;rG lb Wt. io known as # ”•. obnsi'db rabid - China town H ? ♦ ith a largo ; hotel and a branch the Tong known ®s the 11 Keo Tin Tung’ V.'A ' ■. > * '■.•''

■ COHOTWTXONS;- - Kavicng claims ;o Have' the bent roads -'in. the : .’errltory, arid brio ''road? runs . \/r own the coast IJO mile's« This’;’ is construe ted by J&lomlnlgki, • ’. ho famous Gorman administrator, a ring Gorman occupation of tho rritcry.- irly good roads rose the Island.

THE XSIAND - 10 very mouritari- •. ous .a nd- the hi st; peak which 7 /isos 'to a height of 6*135 fait, .3 in the Rasse| iSounMna, ' ,• : ’

-NATIVES - very little’ is known f the natives,'•-’

ADJACWU’ ;IBX/;KD3«: \

’ TAbar - thio co nsists of three • glands off the east •.•boast; of NSW. '.' re land./' Very little known of thorn

. LAVONGAX -\f 0 marly known as No - $ ’ largo, mountainous, ‘ ell watered island of about 40 lea by twenty. It lies 20 miles iorth .west- of .Now Ireland. ■ ■ >'

NATIVE /POPULATION. - round about • 700. 25 European’ r linters* . A ood road .right? round. thh ..'lsland*

AHtIRALTY ISLANDS - comprises one large island ( Ito&s ) and,, email onfio. lying out 380 'nofin west of IUMUL, Ths total area is about 800 square, miles.

MANUS *l® thb largo st island of , ths Admiralty Group and too two -. .<, main, ports 1 «;-LOWGAU mm LAMBHUM, IT s is 55 mil W-long and about 16 wide 9 , lias an orca'of over //DO square miles; arid mountain® rift® io slightly over .300 feat* It is fertile and densely wooded,

7 ISLAND - has ;.38 plantations consisting of/about 20.000 acres under coconut palms, v

• OTHER ISUTOB « 'of ...the; Admiralty Group Include D’Entrecasteaux and' Wild Islands, Jesus Maria, la’ Varidole, st;/; Gabriel, Pichrilow-' arid. St. George,

•‘ OTHER ISLANDS •♦* to the north-wost-of the Admiralty Islands arc three . small groups * 200 miles distant - 4 known as .NlngOr Hermit and; Anchorite Islands - bettor known as the : North- Western Islands.

»■■ THE DIGGOEL ’ OM3>, ■’«' « A strange ‘• enterprise in th® Dutch New 1 Guins®, about 1927, ,w- : the establishment Of v a : big n Communist ■•'Gamp- four .days’.steaming ■up th© Literal/ crib of the, .•■•••.•largest rivers in the country.* Here ’ 'BSO rbvolutibnari&w from Java, with 470 dependents, • vb-ro compulsorily' ' / settled;on a large. fertile . table- : land*. : In 1938 about • 400 exiles • remained guarded by 80 soldiers. * Ntfet-of ' the others had boon par - jddnbd» ?; '• ■• ■' ‘• • - - ■’.•■ '■ •• ■

; F7•••-••XT<6ANNo8 -bo.'•too strongly emv^bforid/; that Dutch Now ;®uirioa • offer® -few openings for ; white men • at- present and that the Dutch/.off-,A ’ icials in putting difficulties in ~. the way of immigration, are in •/-k .■ real! acting in ; the be st, Ante reels .of tho adventurous man who would like to try thnir fortunes !|

M ; ST WAS .announced, 5 ln-0ct.1934,. j that ths great peninsular at the north-western end ■of But ch Now . / *./ Guinea, VogQlkop'.’Bcherlblarid, had.*' been . Io esod- to a cation called ; NEW GUINEA OIL COlWfYr representing the 3 Standard OIL. Op, (Now - Yorlc)4os; Shell Co* .40$ and : tho Atlantic Co 20%. which was to c.wence' immediately • ; .te .l?r. ■, research for oil M ’. •

Reference 1 /Pacific ■ Elands/ Year Book.

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