The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 November 1938Vol. IX, No. 4

An "A.P.C." Suburb

p. 27 · Read in the full issue

From Our Own Correspondent

Pt. Moresby. Nov. 1.

THE newly-formed Australasian Petro leum Co. Ltd. (see article on cage 36) have already commenced work on the group of 20 houses which they are building here for their large staff. The site chosen is near the golf links, on Lawes Road. The buildings comprise dwellings, laboratories, offices, etc.

“A.PC. village”, which it is to be call ed, will cover an area of about four acres, and will become a new suburb of Port Moresby.