49 Kaindi again, dropping into the trap, and settling on the white-painted wall of the front porch, where I pop them into killing bottles. Thursday, May 14. An uncompromising dull morning preceded a day with more than 50/50 sunshine. High cloud drift still from the SE. No rain after daylight; light rain for some time after 3 am. Botanized up a high level water race of the Day Dawn Mine to its intake dam, perhaps a mile from camp and 500 feet above it on a feeder of the Meari. All second growth forest in which, on the narrow crests of spurs, I had good collecting. The take included 2 Quintinia spp., 2 Rhodomyrtus, a Timonius, Trimenia, Pittosporum, climbing Tecomanthe with solitary big pink flowers, a stout bignoniaceous climber with solitary deep red flowers which could well be a new genus, and, from clayey landslips, a big-leaved Vaccinium with green flowers and one with pink flowers. At the dam I saw two species of dragonfly, and caught both (one a big one like Anax), and a damselfly which eluded me. These the only Odonata seen in the locality so far. Forest Officer J.J. Havel of Bulolo arrived and will be with us until Saturday to gain a knowledge of the montane flora. This afternoon he made notes and drawings of several of the more important second growth trees. Joe has been designated to head a forest ranger's school planned to start at Bulolo two years hence. A class of about 15 expected. A 3-year course consisting of one year of general education above 9th grade, and two years of forestry. Joe is a very pleasant and capable "New Australian", who migrated from Czechoslovakia in 1948 and was educated in Western Australia and the Canberra Forestry School. Friday, May 15. Heard water running into the 50-gallon drum which serves us for a tank through a good bit of the night. A drizzly, gusty dawn, but the weather took up later and by 11 o'clock there was some sunshine. Showers late in the afternoon. Seems that we are on the edge of a big SE disturbance. The weather, and my having to start up both drying units, made me late in getting into the field. With Joe Havel and my two boys, and John driving the Land Rover, we left for Mt. Kaindi at 9 am and returned to camp at 2pm. Drove up the new road to the radio-telephone repeater station as far as we could -- a matter of two miles and a bit. Road very bad in places and we would not have gone far without chains on the back wheels. From where we left the Land Rover a grade continues for perhaps half a mile, in places a good wide road and in other parts a pack track. The last 1/4 mile was a mere pad through the debris of the completely felled forest which until maybe a year ago covered the mountain top. The repeater station, unattended, stands in a clearing of about 2 acres. Two aluminum buildings and a 96-ft. tower. Broken windows let rain into the powerhouse, and water lies on the cement floor. One building is for the accommodation of visiting personnel. Sign outside "Kaindi Kuntry Klub." The mountain reputed to be 8000 feet high; we could make it only 7750 by aneroid. The forest of the lower slopes of the mountain (from about our camp level of 6800 feet) is dominated by what John Womersley calls Nothofagus grandis. From about 7400 feet to the summit another Nothofagus takes over. This has small leaves, and until I had a small one cut down, I thought it was a Zanthomyrtus.