Kaindi disease. They were sent down to the Wau native hospital and soon returned. About all that can be done for the sickness is dosage with apsinrin. A day or two of 103-104 temperature is usual. From Havel I learned that Bulolo reforestation now amounts to 3900 acres, 1100 of which were planted this year. Oldest plantings (practically all plantings are Araucaria cunninghamii) 9 years old and average 7 feet of height growth per year. Exploitation and reforestation are being done on a 50 year rotation if the foresters have their way, a 30-year rotation is desired and being pressed for by the company. The tallest "pine" measured in the Bulolo forests was an A. klinkii 284 feet high. The species runs up to about 6 ft. in diameter. Management of the Bulolo gold and lumber company said to be very inefficient. An overload of European personnel. White men doing work that natives could do. As the gold mining cuts out the white personnel involved is being put into the lumber part of the business, in which they have no experience or interest. Ordinary sawn lumber for building purposes costs 6 pounds per 100 super feet to the public. Royalty paid on first class coniferous lumber is 6/- per hundred; second class (tops, etc.) 2/-; hardwoods 2/-. This is an abnormal season for weather at Bulolo; some wet season months were dry; May, which should be dry, has been wet. Sunday, May 17. A breeze from about E across the mountain spoiled my light trapping until the lamp was put out about 10 o'clock. Very heavy rain accompanied by what must have been a gale-force wind, began about midnight and continued for round about 2 hours. A wild looking dawn, but the day mostly clear and no rain. A day's weather about as good as last Monday's. Sent the boys into the field after we had worked on dried specimens, and myself checked estimated weights for the Mt. Wilhelm freighting flights. I can't get them down to 2 x 2000 lb loads without our dropping a boy or some personnel walking in from Goroka to Keglsugl. Our present cook's helper is pretty use- less, but firewood will be a problem at the top camp and one must expect to be short handed at times through sickness in native personnel. From traps set above Edie Creek settlement Van took 2 white-bellied Rattus last night; A dog from the settlement was caught in one of the steel traps and carried it home with him. A marsupial mouse, the first for the trip (an Antechinus of the flavipes group, perhaps, thinks Van) was trapped in Notho- fagus forest second growths across the creek from our camp. A somewhat expected appearance of weekend hunters from the local labor forces with things to sell failed to eventuate. Van and John are jacking along the Bulldog Road tonight. Machinery, new and old, has a fascination for John. Today he walked from Edie Creek with a guide supplied by Scotty (George)Sutherland tó inspect a Pelton-wheel generating plant on the Little Wau Creek, a walk of 1 3/4 hours from Edie Creek and 2 1/4 hours return. The plant (Pelton wheel alone estimated to weigh 1 1/4 tons) was taken in about 1938-39 by Bob Franklin, presumably to supply power for the Day Dawn Mine, and never installed. About 30 Watut natives now working alluvial gold on that part of the Little Wau; a patch of about 50 acres of primary forest recently felled for gardens and now being planted with sweet-potatoes, pit-pit, etc. These natives said by Sutherland to be getting good gold. The Pelton wheel alone of the generating plant considered by John to have any value now; the electrical gear, including 4 transformers, has deteriorated beyond repair. All the machinery is lying in the bush without protection from the wather.