OIL EXPLORATION IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA
NEW YOEK, Jan. 12. i The Roval Butcli Shell Group has i arrauged for a full-scale exploralion of , j oil possibililics of Dutch New Guinea. j A contract has beon awarded to an i Amorican lirm for tho eonstruction of ' two piers • and approximately 62 miles J of rohds, whieh will give access to j drilliug areas in the dense jungle | country. Advance eonstruction crews are at prescnt usseinblhig at Morofai j whieh will be usod as tlie base for Ihe | transhipiuent of personnel and supplies. j Catalina flyingboats will be employed | to coordiuate tlie widely scaLterod paris I of Ihe work in whieh 60 Anicricans and j 800 natives will be engaged.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 January 1947, Page 3
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