STIRRING STORY
PROSPECTING IN PAPUA. (Australian Press Association) SYDNEY, Sept. 18. . Gold seekers who arrived to-day from Papua tell a stirring story of their adventures while prospecting in the Tauri River region. The way was difficult, leading over towering limestone mountains, and the natives though outtwardly friendly, were really i.ostile. One prospecting party was compelled to fire on natives, who frequently left bunches of arrows in the white man’s path as a sign that they were to get out. Kukuku tribesmen, who are headhunters, made two attacks on a whites’ camp, but they were repelled.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1929, Page 6
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95STIRRING STORY Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1929, Page 6
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