Roads At Last!
p. 53 · Read in the full issue
Activity in Port Moresby
From Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, Mar. 21.
AFTER several years of ecstatic con templation, or hypnotic trance, or perhaps the coma of despair, the Public Works Department has begun to face the urgent matter of road mainten ance in and about Port Moresby.
There may have been a definite ob ject in the policy of masterly inactivity followed for about eight years. One sug gestion was that scientific research de manded data as to just how far roads could deteriorate without becoming com pletely impassable by modern traffic. An other supposed that the intention of the Department was to impose an elimina tion test with the object of discovering the world’s most robust car; while a third imagined that the idea was to promote trade through the importation of spare parts and new tyres.
Whatever the reason, the Department is now busy, and good work has been done on a few stretches of roadway in the town.
One of our leading weekly newspapers complained a short time ago that all roads were hollow in the middle, form ing natural water-courses, to the detri ment of our Rolls-Royces and Lanchesters.
Now the same paper laments that the cambered crown on the new sections re sults in an unpleasant slope towards the gutter on each side. Truly, it is difficult to please everybody all the time.