N.G. Roads Closed To Copra
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Transport After Dark
ON April 24, per medium of the New Guinea Gazette, and under the author ity of the Administrator’s Powers Or dinance, the Administrator 'made the fol lowing new regulation, to come into operation on May 1: “Except within the boundaries of any town, no person shall, without the writ ten consent of a District Officer previously obtained, use any road for the transport of coconuts or copra between the hours of 7 p.m. and 5.30 a.m. Penalty; Fifty pounds or imprisonment for six months.
There is no explanation of the new law, but apparently it is connected with the rapid growth of copra-production by natives (who have installed a number of modern driers), and with accidents which have occurred recently owing to reckless driving of motor-lorries by natives.
Mr. J. R. Budge, who has been staying for several months at Ouaco, in the north of New Caledonia, returned to Australia
by the Maetsuycker on May 18.
Mr. Ken Nettleship, of the Customs Department, New Guinea, and Mrs.
Nettleship, arrived in Sydney from Rabaul by the Nellore in May.