Rabaul Is Not Worrying!
p. 19 · Read in the full issue
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Rabaul, Oct. 4.
ALL is quiet on this front.
Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd. are busy with their new store, and Ra baul looks like anything but a town about to be shifted, or a capital being deprived of its status.
The Chinese are busily building and the Public Works officials are doing much to bring the roads into decent shape.
This agitation from Wau, that it should be the capital, is regarded by Rabaul with disdain. It is an impossible plan, on account of the location of Wau.
We are without the Administrator/ who is away on holiday in the East; but Mr. Page (Government Secretary) is acting very satisfactorily as head of the Government.
Mr. S. Geddes, formerly in charge of the drilling operations for N.G.G., Ltd., and who recently had been carrying out drilling work for the W. S. Syndicate in New Guinea, arrived in Sydney by the last “Macdhui”. He later sailed for New Zealand.