Lae-Goroka Night fell before we left the Schindlers. At 7 o'clock we reached the Kainantu Hotel and put up for the night. Pleasant, small, new hotel on the bull-dozed top of a grassy hill (all hills grassy hereabouts); owned by Highlands Hotels Ltd. and run by a Dutch couple named Hoogervorst. Altitude 5260 feet, 152 miles from Lae. Slept under three thick blankets, and needed them. Tuesday, June 2. After a tasty and well served breakfast at the hotel, we called at the government offices (Kainantu Sub-District Headquarters). ADO A. (Gus) Bottrill away in Lae. PO Jack Erskine, in temporary charge, had been in the area only 3 weeks and knew nothing about it useful to us. Spoke briefly with, but did not know who he was until later, Dr. Zigas, one of the original researchers on Kuru Disease (so-called Laughing-death) at Okapa, a patrol post about 30 miles to the south of Kainantu. Left Kainantu at 8:25 with a moustached young man named Don Cross, an acquaintance of John Collines, as passenger. Cross showed signs of a heavy night with the young men of the post; talked incessantly for an hour, then subsided and dozed. He knew the country well, however. Pointed out a conspicuous hill a few minutes out of Kainantu called Moneyfinke (?) where plate gold had been mined, and a gully from the hill which had yielded kooked gold in valuable specimen form. Some relic forest, mainly Castanopsis and an oak at 5:50, 160 miles from Lae. At 9:05 crossed the Ramu-Purari Divide at Kompri Hill, 6200 ft. Divide capped with good Castanopsis, oak, etc. forest. The highest point on the Lae-Goroka Road. Passed Henganofi patrol post at 4900 ft. in a pleasant little grassy valley. Climbed a grass divide from there and at 10:50, 5200 ft., 192 miles, entered the Asaro Valley. Goroka is situated in this valley, which iswide, grassy, and not so very hilly as the other highlands valleys we have passed through. Black Angus cattle grazing in a fenced property of one of the Leahys where we dropped down into valley. A stiff climb up the Bene-Bena Divide at 5500 ft., 205 miles. Reached Goroka at 11:50. 5400 ft., 214 miles from Lae. Had lunch at Eddie Collin's place about a mile NW of the town. Later called on District Commissioner Bill Seale; Government Stores (Dick Winter and -- Primrose) to arrange for storage of our gear; Qantas office to check on our air charters, and Buntings to check on our foodstuffs order. Ken James, manager of Buntings, kindly invited Van and I to use his guest house and take our meals with him. The guesthouse a comfortable 2-roomed place with bathroom and small kitchen, running hot and cold water, and electric light. We found the Goroka Hotel pretty poor on our visit of two months ago. The best forest on the Goroka side of Aiyura was on the Ramu-Purari Divide. This would not warrant a camp of more than two or three days. Practically no timber is left between the Ramu-Purari Divide and Goroka. On the Goroka side of Henganofi there is a relic patch of Araucaria cunninghamii coming down to the road in a small valley. A government resthouse there. A possible camp site for a few days. Wednesday, June 3. Light rain through most of last night. Day generally overcast. This condition said to be unusual for this time of year.