Aerodrome
p. 23 · Read in the full issue
Site For Rabaul
From Our Own Correspondent.
Rabaul, July 14.
A GOVERNMENT officer is at present surveying an area at the south-eastern boundary of Kuraiba plantation, in the vicinity of Toma, to investigate its suit ability for an aerodrome. The site is about 14 miles from Rabaul, and is part of the mission property, Vunakanau.
If this land is suitable it will solve one of Rabaul’s major problems. Several pos sible sites have already been rejected. It was when the Administration was seeking an aerodrome site last year that the Ma tupi natives protested that their lands were being illegally seized by the Govern ment.
Commander C. J. R. Webb, Harbour master at Rabaul, returned to New Guinea by the July Montoro after fur lough.