Was Director-General, Medical Service, Civil Construction Corps (C.C.C.) during the war. His job as M.O. here, taken up last year, will give him opportunity to study the embryology of the crocodile. Saturday, February 21 Talk of the town this morning was a fight on the Lochiel between Smith and Bally. With thought no doubt for his own safety, with violence about, crewman Da Silva rushed up town for police during the night. Learning from Da Silva that no property had been damaged, and no one killed, the sergeant decided to have no part of the Lochiel and fifteen crew. Left on the Shipton's Flat trip at 9:15 and got back in town about eight at night. Distance there and back 60 miles. Bluey has a good 2-ton Ford truck of Lend-Lease origin. Shared the hire of the truck with J. D. Dwyer, a young ex-policeman who, with a partner, has re- cently bought Kalpowar Station on the lower Normanby, and was going to Helenvale, 20 miles south of town. Dwyer a collector of birds eegs; has a classified collection of about 300 Australian species. He went on to Shipton's Flat with me. Others of the party were Hickey of my hotel, and Mick Concannon, a wharfie on holiday from Cairns. Road to Shipton's Flat passes over sound country on which there should be no fear of bogging in the wet season if care is taken to keep to the old hard road on certain tea-tree flats between Cooktown and Helenvale. Road badly washed out in places. Low level crossings on several big feeders of the Annan River would delay traffic for hours to perhaps a day or two after heavy rains. The Annan is crossed by a good bridge four miles from Cooktown. Wallaby Creek (east branch of the Annan) is crossed by a good bridge at "The Forks" about two miles past Helenvale, but on this section the road is down in the river flood channels and would be made impassable by a rise of only a few feet in the Wallaby or the main Annan. After crossing Wallaby the road begins to climb, following a spur ridge. About two miles from Shipton's Flat, on high ridges of red soil wet with rain, we had to put chains on the wheels. The road would carry heavy traffic through the wet season, but traffic would be held up at times by flood rains. That is as far as the lower edge of Shipton's. Flat pocket. To get to the sawmill and on toward Mt. Finnegan, means crossing Parrot Creek (a big rocky stream) or a deep feeder gully. The bridge over the gully on the direct route has been washed out. Of two bridges over the Parrot, [illegible] formerly used by timber hauling trucks, I saw only one, and that would need extensive repairs to make it cross- able by a lorry. The sawmill has not worked for three years. A caretaker, Jack Roberts, who spends most of his time working a tin show, lives with his cross-eyed wife in a cottage about half a mile from the mill. Roberts, a man of low intelligence. Has lived most of his life in this area but could give me only confused accounts of it, and he has never been far up the slopes of Finnegan. The mill would make a very comfortable base for us, but is situated about a mile from the base of the mountain and about three miles from the summit.