Description (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl): 00.30 Project leader pushes his way across field cleared from tree stubs and through remnants of ashes of burnt trees. 00.40 A cater-pillar bulldozer pushes and pulls trees down, after which two dozers pile the trees. 01.35 Dutch instructor teaches Papua how to operate a dragline for digging a trench on the stubbed field. 01.49 Water reservoir near dammed swamp river and irrigation canal controlled by small sluice. 02.00 Papuans greasing bulldozer with grease gun on instruction of Dutch instructor, after which cater- pillar tractor pulls heavy disc plough across the field. Covered and uncovered trial plots, where Dutch expert inspects the plants, taking samples with Papuans, after which the plants are sprayed against insects. The rice is harvested and threshed mechanically with a Claes Combine piloted by a Papua. The grains of rice are squirted into a cart, which is drawn away with a tractor. 03.52 Harvested rice is being poured out on jute sacks for drying in the sun. 04.01 Narrow-gauge railway-track on which small loc draws tip-lorries with sand supplied from hundreds of miles away. 04.14 Building of a drying-shed by Papuans who operate a concrete mixer, and taking the mortar to the building site. 04.26 Little houses for the native workers and a local shop. 04.34 A road-plane which smoothes the field for the construction of an airstrip for small planes, which must provide the supplies. 05.00 Survey vessel HMS Snellius on the new slipway in Manokwari. Papuans carry out maintenance work on the ship's propeller under the guidance of a Dutch instructor. Afterwards this propeller is being hauled onto its place. View of the fully occupied slipway. 05.29 Tower derrick with a thirty meter span lowers steel girder onto pontoon. A couple of shipyard workers working on the pontoon. Front view of the ship yard where two drag boats of the Hydrographic Service, the Snellius and a pontoon are being serviced. 06.01 Scaling of the keel by a Chinese, a Dutch and a Papuan worker (close-ups) Painting of the hull of the Snellius, of which the bow rises high up. 06.25 Old Papua heating grease, with which he greases a transport chain. 06.35 Ship yard manager and commander of the Snellius inspecting the ship, on which the flag is waving already, crew members are bringing foodstuffs on board, and hawsers and gangway are drawn away. 06.59 The current of the launching installation is switched on, after which the ship glides down the slipway in vertical position, while shipyard workers and crew are looking on, engines and winches are turning, and Jan Zwart, head of the drawing room, is watching the chain. After that the workers are busy working on the yard cars. 07.51 The coaster Cycloop is being winched onto the vacant place of the 3500 tons slip yard. 08.30 The special lifting installation for smaller craft of up to fifty tons 08.35 Interior of workshop, where Papuans operate lathes and planing machine. An electro motor is hoisted away. 09.09 On the slipway the Cycloop is being cut in two by a blow-torch, while propeller is being scaled. 09.30 In the meantime construction parts are being readied in the workshop, using pneumatic riveting hammer, drill and heavy column drilling machine. 09.57 The Cycloop burnt into two. Both halves have been torn apart. A heavy pump body is hoisted out of it. A foreman gives instructions, a Papua is looking on. 10.42 End.