July 14th This AM prepared 6 loads for parachutes as follows:- 1 Kero. case--14 water-filled beer bottles, 28 kg--chute opened, perfect drop; 1 bottle only broken, packed in light amount of excelsior. 1 case peaches--31 kg--good drop on three shrouds, one being broken. All tins in good condition; only a few very slightly bulged. 1 case prunes--31 kg--as above. 1 case pickles and 1 case tongues--32 kg--chute didn't open; most of tins badly bent, crumpled, but some not so--all usable. glass bottles of pickles; some neck broken, some only crowns off. None of the meat lost but some of the tins wouldn't keep as bending around the seams. 2 cases soap, 33 kg--chute didn't open-- most of tins spoiled--a few could per haps be used. 1 case meat, lost in forest. 3 rice sacks--20 kg--tightly sewn in fine copra sack, loosely in another. dropped at same time. Landed 20 yards or so apart, one with a small break on one end, losing perhaps 1 kg rice. All dropped from 300-400 feet or more, on grass hill. Good soft soil, across corner of bay. Chutes 4m x 4m ordinary calico £45 per bolt on last boat, with fish-line shrouds from each corner (4 in all) and an 8 in. hole in centre. Chutes just rolled up and thrown out. Returned Hollandia with Dutch party who agreed dropping good. Rogers says parachutes should be loaded 35 lbs for 5 sq feet. in PM going over schedules with Capt. Teerink. Three planes went out and came back today--brought in man sick with diphtheria from Bantam. Mr. Ebele brought a number of things including 20 Megapodium eggs, Tallegalus egg Megapodium and 7 young ducks, as well as mammals, bandboots and petaurus and 2 young.