Laloki Water
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Supply
Proposed Scheme for Pt. Moresby
From Our Own Correspondent.
Port Moresby, March 21.
NOW that the prospects of the Territory seem brighter, Port Moresby is agitating for a water supply from the Laloki River, which runs parallel with coast about 21 miles from the capital, to take the place of the large storage reser voir on the hill behind the town.
The project is by no means a new one.
In 1928 it was brought forward, and had it not been for the depression the scheme would have been established long ago.
The idea is generally considered a sound one. Though some residents, while admitting the advantages and comfort of a plentiful water supply, consider that it is a little premature to burden a small township of only 350 residents with the responsibility of a debt of over £20,000 until the markets have become steadier and a permanent and successful mining community has become an established fact in the Territory.