Expert Reports On Port
pp. 60-62 · Read in the full issue
Moresby Water Supply
From Our Own Correspondent.
Pt. Moresby, Aug. 13.
BY the W.R.C. airliner from Sydney Mr. W. H. Roper, supervising engi neer of Works and Local Government in N.S.W., arrived here on August 3 to report on a water scheme Port Moresby. He will remain in the district for three weeks and then return to Australia by air.
It is estimated that the cost of the scheme will not exceed £40,000, but this estimate is not definite and the Ad ministration will await the expert’s re port.
It is understood that' the Government have had an offer from two Sydney businessmen, Messrs. Carter and Water house, to construct the works by private contract. This proposal is in abeyance pending the decision of the Federal Treasury regarding a loan. The Treas ury first desires to know the revised es timated total cost of the water scheme and the period over which expenditure would be spread before any consider ation can be given to granting a loan to Papua.
Colonel F. W. t)awson, medical officer from the N.Z. Health Department, has arrived in Rarotonga by the “Matua”.
He is assisting Drs. Ellison ,gind Rose in combating the measles epidemic in the Cook Islands.
Mr. Alfred B. Drew, a well-known Suva watchmaker and jeweller, died in Aug ust, at the age of 58. A New Zealander, he arrived in Fiji during the war years.
Mr. C. L. Cheng, formerly Chinese Vice-Consul in Fiji, returned to Suva from China by the August “Niagara” to join the directorate of Messrs. Jang, Hmg, Loong and Co.