25th B. Richardson 1938 4 General Account situated close to said trees. Just back of the godown is another fairly elevated spot which may be used for white living quarters. Brass is going to negotiate the renting of a buying of two slit iron houses facing the water and within 100 yd of the ramp. If the deal goes through it will not necessitate our building living quarters. There were 25 Coolies from Hollandia and neighbors which showed up this morning for work. They cut some timber for the godown. The timber is supposed to be straight-grained, gorge wood of a durable nature. This afternoon at 3:00 o'clock the men 36 Coolies from Sentania Lake wanting to work. After some dispute over wages it was settled upon that they work for $5/- pay day with rice or sago and tobacco furnished. They are to begin work tomorrow at 8 o'clock until 3 o'clock. They apparently prefer to work their 8 hrs out without a break. The tide was checked again today. A chart was furnished by the ships captain of the govt vessel which plotted the tidal for each hour of today. The high low tidal was at 4:50. We put in a permanent graph and recorded the tidal at the 1/2, 1/2, and 3/4 hour of 4. The maximum tidal at the end of the ramp was 4'7" and at the highest point of the bar 3'4". Apr. 28 Hollandia New Guinea This morning the godown sight was restored and the hole for the upright dug, the remainder of the granaries was brought under cover, beginning of a piling out of the coals and ends of jobs done. In the afternoon the Morazan Coolies pulled back off the gran bays. As first of our labor problems an