Being Repaired at Last
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Salamaua 'Drome
From Our Own Correspondent.
WAU, August 19.
THE Salamaua aerodrome, one of the most important landing grounds in the Mandated Territory, which has re cently caused a great deal of concern to pilots operating heavy machines between the coast and the goldfields, is now under repair, and the work is proceeding satis factorily.
Hitherto the aerodrome has been in an appalling condition during heavy weather.
At times the aeroplanes have had to take off and land in a miniature lake. The big companies operating on the Morobe gold fields and the Administration use it frequently, and it certainly is not an un timely move to effect the much needed repairs.
Dr. J. Loftus Hills, a Victorian geolo gist, left Sydney for Fiji by the Mariposa on August 21. Commissioned by Nasivi (Fiji) Gold Syndicate N.L. to report upon the Raki Raki area, 30 miles from Tavua, he made a comprehensive sampling and inspection of the property. On Septem ber 10, having check sampled the ma terial, he radio’d his report to the
directors, recommending them to abandon the area as the rocks and so-called lodes exposed were of the wrong type to con stitute a goldfield.