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Pacific Islands Monthly, 25 May 1938Vol. VIII, No. 10

New Road To Rabaul

p. 64 · Read in the full issue

Aerodrome

ANEW road has been constructed be tween the Rabaul aerodrome and Kokopo, via Kurakakaul plantation, and this provides a considerably shorter route than the road via Wunawutung.

The grade is very severe, however, being 1 in 7 in places.

Mrs. Gibson, wife of Mr. Walter Gib son, of Messrs. Burns Philp (S.S.) Co.

Ltd., died in Suva on May 4, after a brief illness.

Mr. F. J. H. Grattan, of the Samoan Native Affairs Department, married Miss Gareth Barclay, of Rakaia, N.Z., at Apia Protestant Church on April 23.