Adventure Magazine Cover, December 10, 1922 — page 190: what you’re looking at

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A Free Question and Answer Service Bureau of Infor- mation on Outdoor Life and Activities Everywhere and Upon the Various Commodities Required Therein. Con- ducted for Adventure Magazine by Our Staff of Experts. expert in charge of the section in whose field it falls. So that service may be as prompt as possible, he will answer you by mail direct. But he will also send to us a copy of each question and answer, and from these we shall select those of most general interest and publish them each issue in this department, thus making it itself an exceedingly valuable standing source of practical information. Unless otherwise requested inquirer’s name and town are printed with question; street numbers not given. When you ask for general information on a given district or subject the expert may give you some valuable general pointers and refer you to baoks or to local or special sources of information. Our experts will in all cases answer to the best of their ability, using their own discretion in all matters pertaining to their sections, subject only to our general rules for “Ask Adventure,” but neither they nor the magazine assumes any responsibility beyond the moral one of trying to do the best that is possible. These experts have been chosen by us not only for their knowledge and experience but with an eye to their integrity and reliability. We have emphatically assured each of them that his advice or information is not to be affected in any way by whether a given commodity is or is not advertised in this magazine. : OQ eves in should be sent, not to this office, but direct to the 1. Service (except our assaying and oil services) free to anybody, provided self-addressed envelop and full postage, not attached, are enclosed. (See footnote at botiom of page.) Correspondents writing to or from foreign countries will please enclose International Reply Coupons, purchasable at any post-office, and exchangeable for stamps of any country in the International Postal Union. 2. Send each question direct to the expert in charge of the particular section whose ficld covers it. He will reply by mail. Do NOT send questions to this magazine. 3. No reply will be made to requests for partners, for financial backing, or for chances to join expeditions. ‘‘Ask Adventure’”’ covers business and work opportunities, but only if they are outdoor activities, and only in the way of general data and advice. It is in no sense an employment bureau. 4, Make your questions definite and specific. State exactly your wants, qualifications and intentions. Explain your case sufficiently to guide the expert you question. 5. Send no question until you have read very carefully the exact ground covered by the particular expert in whose section it seems to belong. Penrhyn, Danger, Easter, Rotuma, Futuna, Pitcairn), Inhabitants, history, travel, sports, equipment, climate living conditions, commerce, pearling, vanilla and coconut culture. 7. * Australia and Tasmania ALBERT GOLDIE, Sydney Press Club, 51 Elizabeth St., banks. (See next section.) Sydney, Australia. Customs, resources, travel, hunting, 2. * The Sea Part2 British Waters : sports. history. (Postage 5 cents.) CaPTAIN A. E, DINGLE, care Adventure. Seamanship, 8. Malaysia, Sumatra and Java Fay-CooPer Core, Ph. D., Field Museum of Natural His- tory, Chicago, Ill. Hunting and fishing, exploring, com- 1, TheSea Part1 American Accom BeriAnw Brown, 1624 Bigelow Ave., Olympia, Wash. Ships, seamen and shipping; nautical history, seaman- ship, mavigation, yachting, small-boat sailing; com- mercial fisheries of North America; marine bibliography of U. S.; fishing-vessels of the North Atlantic and Pacific navigation, old-time sailorizing, ocean-cruising, etc. Questions on the sea, ships and men local to the British Empire go to Captain Dingle, not Mr. Brown. 3. K islands and Coasts Part1 Islands of Indian and Atlantic Oceans; the Mediterranean; Cape Horn and Magellan Straits Carprain A. E. DINnGLE, care Adventure. Ports, trade, peoples, travel. (See next section). 4. Islands Part2 Haiti, Santo Domingo, Porto Rico and Virgin Group : CHARLES BELL Emerson, Adventure Cabin, Los Gatos, Calif. Languages, mining, minerals, fishing, sugar, fruit and tobacco*production. 5. &* New Zealand; and the South Sea Islands Part 1 Cook Islands, Samoa é Tom L. Mitts, The Feilding Star, Feilding, New Zealand. Travel, history, customs; adventure, exploring, sport. (Post- age & cents.) 6. South Sealslands Part 2 : CHARLES Brown, JR., 213 E St., San Rafael, Calif. French Oceania (Tahiti, the Society, Paumoto, Marquesas); islands of Western Pacific (Solomons, New Hebrides, F1ji, Tonga); of Central Pacific ( m, Ladrone, Pelew, Caro- line, Marshall, Gilbert, Ellice); of the Detached (Wallis, merce, inhabitants, history, institutions. New Guinea L. P. B. Armit. Port Moresby, Territory of Papua, sia Sydney, Australia. Hunting and fishing, exploring, com- merce, inhabitants, history, institutions. Questions regard- ing the measures or policy of the Government or proceed- ings of Government officers not answered. (Postage 6 cents.) 10. Philippine Islands Buck Connor, P. O. Box 202, Hollywood, Calif. History, inhabitants, topography, customs, travel, hunting, fishing, minerals, agriculture, commerce. 11. Hawaiian Islands and China F. J. HALTON, 714 Marquette Bldg., Chicago, II]. Customs, travel,natural history.resources, agriculture, fishing, hunting, 12. Japan Grace P. T. KNupson, Castine, Me. Commerce, politics, people, customs, history, geography, travel, agriculture, art, curios. 13. Asia, Southern CAPTAIN BEVERLEY GIDDINGS, I315 pom hine St., New Orleans, La. Arabia, Persia, India, Tibet, Burma, western China, Borneo. Hunting, exploring, traveling, customs. * (Enclose addressed enzelop with 5 cents—in Mr. Beadle's case 12 cents—in stamps NOT attached) 184 Gomichooks (E(0)