A Roman Bridge in the Fens

carriers, clubbed to death. The task of finding the murderers in that mountain country will take at least three months. When the District Officer considers that, unless the natives are provoked. the lives and property of miners in a certain area can reasonably be considered to be safe, a site for a new post is determined. The District Officer and the officer whose duty it will be to establish the post make an aerial reconnaissance and select a likely looking patch of ground for a landing-ground. The pilot, who will have to land on the ground, is naturally consulted. The country between the selected spot and the nearest post or landing-ground is carefully surveyed and the inward route mapped. The route should be as short as possible; but should avoid villages. When the patrol has been out the number of days it was anticipated it would take to reach the new post, a machine flies out with tools and rations, which are dropped if the signal is received that the ground is suitable for the purpose required. The patrol then signals the number of days needed to prepare the ground for a machine, and at the agreed time the District Officer lands there. Having no worry about supplies or reinforcements-a signal laid down will always bring a machine-he can begin the visiting of nearby villages at once. With one exception, District Officers are proceeding with carefully laid plans for the development of their districts, and recruiters and missionaries are well satisfied to tread the path made by the Field Staff; but in Morobe District the task of the Field Staff is to keep one move ahead of adventurous miners, prospectors, and recruiters, who, notwithstanding the anxiety they cause, should be given full credit for their share in influencing the native to trust in the white man's Government

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  Open Access•Pamela Jane Smith•Antiquity•1997

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