Description (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl): 00.22 Trainee Papuan civil servants, arrived per pick-up, enter village where the village head greets the leading Dutch civil servant, the group is divided into two, of which each gets a task of its own. The inhabitants, convoked by the village head, are looking on when the candidate police-officer interrogates a person, while a colleague in the second group collects taxes in cash, and immediately after he renders simple medical attendance. 01.38 Students of the training college established in Hollandia (Jayapura) arriving with bearers per service prau in lake village, crossing river-bed, taking a bath in a little lake and building a bivouac of their own with palm leaves. Student drinks coconut milk. 02.38 Agricultural experimental station Kota-Nica, situated in valley near Hollandia, where young Papuans are being trained to be agricultural advisers and where they under supervision of Papuan and Dutch instructors till the ground, are sowing seeds by hand and mechanically, in the nursery-garden they prune and spray, and they service farm machinery, amongst others mini-tractors. 03.58 Board: 'Forestry Course Kota-Nica' of the same training centre, where sixteen boys with simple schooling are being trained in botany and soil science, and also in geodesy by means of a scale-model. Close-ups of round promotion shields with Dutch or Indonesian texts for the benefit of flora and fauna conservation projects. Students making shields. Measuring the diameter of a tree-trunk to be felled in the jungle. From nursery- greenhouse young plants are wheeled outside to be planted in flower-beds. Spraying a tree. Pruning a young tree. 05.36 In a two-years' crash course of the Directorate of Public Works, Papuan boys with only a couple of years' elementary education, are surveying a future proposed route with the help of a theodolite and sticks for the Land Registry and Mapping Service. They cut away the undergrowth. 06.12 No-smoking-sign in Dutch and Indonesian at the training for assistant weather observer. A weather balloon is held in readiness, wind speedometer and direction indicator are being observed. The balloon is released and followed with special glasses. On a weather-chart the observations about height and speed are being registered. Student fills in coded observations in English on blackboard. Instructor wires in Morse clear weather reports, noted down by the students in code groups, after which they themselves operate the Morse keys. 07.13 Future transmitter watchman receives instruction on transmitter station how to tune in a radio transceiver. The counter-clerk in the Post and Telegraph Office learns about registered postal articles, the sales of stamps and the stamping of air-mail. 08.07 Students in uniform follow a ten months' training at the junior sea training school to enter into the Netherlands New Guinea Navy. Inside there are theoretical class lessons, outside on the training vessel they learn how to work the signal flags, 'the ship with a little garden', where they also receive training in lowering loads into the hold as well as lowering a life-boat. Trainee climbs a climbing-rope barefooted in Papuan manner. Instruction about the manual manipulation of signal flags for international signal code, about how to operate a Morse-key, rope-splicing, the maintenance of marine engines and using the ship's compass. 09.39 Trainee plots the ship's course using the compass during a trip with the government's ship. A light beacon is fitted with a gas cylinder. The crew hauls the bottle up a steep reef and puts it into a steel housing. 11.03 End.