8. Womersley and I were invited to the Papuan Club in the afternoon for drinks by Alan Willis. A number of familiar old faces there: Jimmy James, Alan de Groen, Bernie Ryan, John Gunther, etc. Van, Womersley, and Harrie Niall District Commissioner, Morobe (Lae) District at the house of the David Feinbergs after dinner. Feinberg returned late in 1958 after 2 years as P-NG liaison officer at the United Nations, New York. One of the bright younger men of the Department of Native Affairs. Met him at the Museum a year or more ago. Great influx at the hotel of passengers from a Qantas Constellation plane en route Hong Kong which had engine trouble an hour after refuelling at Port Moresby and dumped 20,000 gal. of gasoline before landing. An Indian princess in sari, 5 Russian diplomatic personnel, and sundry other nationalities and colors. Wednesday, March 25. Left Port Moresby at 8:15 AM.on a Qantas D.C. 4 plane and arrived Lae at 9:20. A smooth flight with fair visibility on the south side of the main range; most of north side clouded over. Mt. Victoria stood top clear, black, and cold in the early morning light. The summit peaks of Mt. Albert Edward were hidden by cloud, but I could recognize the broad, partly grassy range top between the mountain and Murray Pass, which we traversed in 1933 on the First Archbold Expedition. Upon arrival in Lae we were met by Martin, manager of Buntings, our agents, and Wood, manager, Bank of New South Wales, waiting at the airport. Martin had a sorry tale to tell about our cargo. He had just received a radiogram, "Pioneer Isle consignment Archbold bonded Sydney pending customs clearance..." Our cargo was on a through bill of lading and marked "Archbold Expeditions, C/- Buntings, Lae, via Sydney, Australia." There was no possible excuse for its being held in Sydney. Customs clearance on such a consignment is a matter for the Collector of Customs of Papua-New Guinea. Equally unbelievable was the inertia and neglect of Martin in not inquiring about the cargo when it was delayed. I wrote him twice from New York asking that all measures be taken to expedite its forwarding from Sydney. At least four boats on which the cargo could have been shipped have arrived in Lae during the last couple or three weeks. It is to be loaded on the Shansi, due to leave Sydney on April 3 and arrive here April 16. A minor blow was a mess made in England in the shipment of our .410 ammunition. We ordered, and were invoiced with, 1200 rounds of 2 1/2 inch dust shot cartridges. On opening the consignment this afternoon we found we had: 200 .410 Dust 2 1/2 inch 500 .410 Dust 2 inch 120 .300 H & H Magnum rifle shells 140 .243w Norma solid point rifle shells 10 .243 " hollow point This from a solid old firm established at least 100 years ago (Cogswell & Harrison, 168 Piccadilly). Probably the big game hunter was just as wrath as I was when he opened his case and found he had .410 shot gun shells instead of the high power rifle ammunition he ordered. We are having two aux barrels made at the Technical School in Lae and should soon be able to test the 2-inch shells on bats.