Old Port Moresby
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As It Was In 1900
VERY few of the original buildings re main to remind old-timers of the Port Moresby they knew thirty or more years ago. They were buildings of cor rugated iron and timber; standing high on piles in isolated blocks on the hill slopes, among the boulders and stunted eucalypt that formed the principal features of the landscape.
One by one these old buildings have gone—the old Treasury and Post Office, Government Stores, Customs Office, Pub lic Works, Hospital, Magistrate Office, and Police Station — and imposing structures of concrete and fibro-cement have taken their place. Last year the old workshop, which stood for many years in front of the telephone exchange, was demolished, revealing the new telephone exchange in the rear, and in its piace has appeared a garden which has done much to improve the appearance of the town frontage. (See photographs on opposite page).