Scandal of Goldfields Road

Why has no road been built to connect the New Guinea goldfields with the coast?

Why has Authority looked calmly on while the development of this marvellously rich gold field has been crippled by transportation costs?

Has the fact that there has been no outcry against the excessive expenditure on aerial transport, amounting to more than half of the £900,000 won from the goldfields, anything to do with the further fact that a certain transport organisation has made huge profits for its shareholders?

Is it a fact that the construction of a road from the coast to the goldfields would have been found quite practicable had it not been for amazing muddling by Administration offi cials on the one hand and wire-pulling on the other?

These questions are induced by some remark able data brought to this journal in recent weeks from three separate and independent sources. If the facts are as presented to us they constitute a grave scandal, in which important Australian interests are involved.

The statements are being investigated: but sufficient of the facts are already clear to call for a public statement of the position.

That statement will appear in the August issue of The Pacific Islands Monthly.