Port Moresby

Water Supply Plan for Port Moresby

AS Port Moresby is being rapidly turned into a “garrison town”, with a naval and an aerial supply base, it is es sential that there be an adeauate water supply and it now seems likely that the Federal Government, as part of the money it is spending for defence pur poses, will make funds available for bringing in water from the mountains 20 or 30 miles inland—from Laloki, or there abouts.

A plan to spend from £lO,OOO to £20,- 000 on this water supply has been under consideration for years; but now a much bigger supply system is needed, and it is likely that about £60,000 will be spent.

There is need for haste. The defence population of Port Moresby is likely to be substantially increased, and if one of the district’s frequent droughts should deve lop, and water carted from the moun tain streams is rationed out, there will be a howl sufficient to blow the Govern ment’s hair off.