Tuesday Dec. 2. Left Tamarama on "Kedelima" at 9.30 AM and arrived DAWA DAWA about one o'clock. My first visit to Philip Bay. Had on board, going to pick up school children who had come in by Tamarai for the Christmas holidays, Ray Taylor, his half caste wife (Terry English), Young Gracia English. Peter Theer's advance letter notwithstanding, there was no red carpet out for me at Dawa Dawa. The big house turned out to be the property of the village councillor, named ADELEI. Place about 30x 20 ft. The frame largely of Douglas fir and Australian hardwood, the roof of salvaged iron. ADELEI refused to vacate his house, saying he had no other. But the house has two rooms at each end, separated by a wide breezeway. I have rented two-thirds of it for 30/- a week. A high price, but worth it to me. My only alternative was to go cruising around the Bay or march of another locality. Situated on a narrow gravel spit on the east side of the mouth of the Dawa Dawa River (ca. 200-yard stream), the village is a new hamlet of five houses. The gray gravel was been taken to Tamarama in quantity for making concrete. On west side of river is small cocoanut plantation owned by Reialing. Touncillor (MAHURU MARK) who had been sent by Mr. D. himself turned up in improving middle-aged man about 50 years, in singlet, shorts & sandals, offering a clean washed monastic & a carved ebony walking stick.