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Feb. 26 The washing machine comes to New Guinea: A Popuan happily wrings out his ush on a washing machines, sign of the times in dutch New Guinea.:Worried future in Dutch New Guinea as Oilfields are not found. Dutch New Guinea: A Netherlands Colony whichs Dutch: In spite of Indonesia;s independence and its aparent triumph over the robels, and recent trends to independence of all colonial territories in these area, Dutch New Guinea romans firmly Dutch. Negotiations on its future broke down a year after they started, and have not been seriously recommend. At the Western tip of Dutch New Guinea is the small 12-year-old oil-port of Sorong where some 200 oil men and their families live. The oil company runs schools, hospital, and has built houses for Europeans and natives. Every month a supply of a party and film shows. Only dark spot on the horizon is that the oil field is running out and has never, in fact proved to be a large one. It was in 1936 that the Dutch New Guinea Oil Company began investigating. It is a 40% B.P.M. (roy. Dutch Shell) 40% Stanvac and 20% Pacific Investments company, and has a concession of 2 million acres in Dutch New Guinea. Oi was struck at Klamond in 1836 and production started. During the war all was destroyed but in 1846 work resumed and the port of Sorong was constructed, with a road and pipeline to the fields, 36 miles away. Ten million guilders were spent on roads and when Klamono was abandoned in 1955 the road was left unmainin. Now Communications are kept by helicopter services. The staff is gradually being reduced by search former sources goes on as being the one hope for theritory. Holland spends 50 million guilders annually on development and 450 million on defense. Private investors are char because ownership on the future is undecided

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