pocket offices to determine water land ownership in the Neura area. Oil company doing a hydrographic survey of rivers. The which thing takes very important. Oct. 16th. 17: Talked at Steamships Trading Co., when 9 past 1pm. Mr. Mitchell & I gained about the forthcoming sailings of M. Tsuchiwa, which left for Tamansi the afternoon with our cargo (eg. Pioneer Ref. from New York Jan. 15). Talked with Arthur Davis, of Bank of N.S. Wales (see above). John Warner by Forest Department, arrived by air from Tae in morning. After lunch, with two young men from his department, we drove first to the Brown River, then to Poruna Falls. Tame nice forest, which John calls in intermediate between rain & mountain forest, in Brown River Valley a flat ranch. Said to have 1000 of deer, alluvial soil. Some cutting being done. A good small nursery of Larch (Larix grana) on river banks, when there is a forest survey camp. Road stops (formed & gravelled road) at the Brown, when a bridge is in early stage of construction. 8 mile track goes on to the Vanasa River. Tony Low Stan is to carry the road to Bulldog, Takikama River, it cannot with the now abandoned wartime road which came over the central ranges from Tae (a Man). Pat Thornby present water supply is pumped from the Taloki River; said it be sadly insufficient when river is low in dry season; pumps also give from 16. 14 hydro power installation about to be built some miles down the Taloki River gorge from Poruna. Power line (3 wire) from the Power Plant at St. Maryby. Horn Brooks on the outskirts of the generating plant; transmission line built by Commonwealth Dept. of Public Works. A British aluminium company is still on a hydro survey of the western rivers which was in progress in 1958. Told it now be somewhere west of the Taramani.