50 June 4th. Guba arrived at Honolulu early this morning (between 1 and 2 PM our time). In the evening a radio from Archbold, dated 1st June, was delivered from the local Government station. Big radio plant working splendidly but both field plants still out of commission. The Sentani coolies received their tobacco and fortnight's pay and departed for their villages in the late afternoon. Hollandia coolies supposed to turn up for work as usual on Monday morning. June 5th. Spent most of the day on wage sheets and accounts. Rand and Richardson took a walk into the forest on the ridges rising to the north of the town and returned with three birds and specimens of a few plants. Two of the plants--Dacrydium? and a species of --- are common and characteristic plants of the light dry forests and forest ridges at Oriomo, in SE New Guinea. June 6th. As I expected the local coolies did not put in an appearance for work. However with the Makassars and the two mandoers (Marcus and Cornelius), work was continued on the #2 dwelling, making a verandah room in front of #1 dwelling, and laying ramp decking. The rising tide stopped our work of laying decking at 11 o'clock. The rest of the day spent in cutting and boring planks for laying tomorrow. After tomorrow most of our actual laying must be done under water. Unfortunately we have only enough planks on hand for tomorrow. Ebeli, in spite of his promise to complete delivery on Saturday (4th) has so far delivered only 170 pieces of the total of about 500 and and 12 of these are too faulty to be used. I have never seen timber so badly sawn. The necessity for matching planks for thickness and straightness adds a lot to a job already arduous enough. Worst of all, most of the planks float and we are obliged to make stone rafts to anchor the whole under-