sentences:  Years later patrol officers would show the people how to clear and level ground to build fields on which the iron and cloth birds would land.After the war Australian "kiaps" (government patrol officers) re-opened the government post at beautiful Lake Kutubu, which was at the time the doorway into the Southern Highlands.During the same year, 1949, Patrol Officers Sid Smith and Desmond Clancy entered the Mendi Valley.