30 but will be handy for flooring, etc. Fortunately Mr. Ebeli, ex-Adjutant of the Ned, Indies Army who has a water driven sawmill on Lake Sentani, was down to meet the boat and I was able to place with him an order for 27 cubic meters of 4" hardwood at a price of f/.30 per 6m. Ebeli guarantees to deliver the timber in a month at a transport cost of F/.35 per mc. Payment to be made in part as the timber comes to hand. Following are distances and modes of transport from the sawmill-- 10 km Footpad Dojo Bare (sawmill) to Itar on shore of lake. 15 km Prauw Itar to Koeyabe(Kuyabu.) 10 km.Footpad Koeyabe to Pim 10 km Prauw Pim to Hollandia. Examined Hollandia for a suitable site for the base and found only one available, ie, a vacant piece of tollerably dry ground near the end of the jetty. Also made a preliminary examination of the shore for site for the aeroplane ramp. Shifted our belongings into Brinkman's house and started to transfer cargo from the wharf with our 9 Makassar coolies. The local natives refused to consider Sunday work. One,who spoke Rabaul pidgin English, saying they wished to visit the "hoyse paper" or church. Stored two cases dynamite, 200 caps and 150 m. fuse at the police post. White population of Hollandia itself consists of f/. Hoogland, the gesagheber; Quirk, O/c police; Feninga, commander of the motor patrol boat Bantam. Natives, half-castes or Chinese, fill positions as doctor, gesagheber's assistant Radio operator and postmaster, clerks, etc. There are 4 Chinese shops and one belonging to a newly arrived British Indian. 28 Papuans turned up for work and were put to cutting timber and bringing it in from the forest for our first go- down. These natives are engaged by Government at our expense and work under a Govt. overseer. Their wages, thirty cents a day without food. They cut and delivered a lot of timber in the day (some of it too crooked to be of use except as firewood) and applied for higher wages upon handing in their tools for the night. Papuans brought in a great deal of timber, a good proportion of which is