Water Supply For Pt.
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Moresby
Sir Hubert Murray in Canberra
IT is understood that the urgent need of a water supply system for Port Moresby, made necessary by the addition of a military garrison and the staffs of oil search companies to the normal popu lation, is the reason for the unexpected visit to Australia of the Lieutenant- Governor of Papua, Sir Hubert Murray.
Sir Hubert Murray arrived in Sydney on December 6, accompanied by Mr. E.
Bignold, Crown Law officer. They sub sequently visited Canberra.
It is expected that Sir Hubert Murray will, owing to the establishment of a garrison at Port Moresby, ask the Federal Government for financial assist ance in providing the very necessary water supply—probably a gravitation supply from the Laloki River, 5 miles away in the mountains —while Mr. Bignold will look into the whole question of the legal machinery available for controlling the prices of commodities.
In Papua, as in other Pacific Terri tories, prices under war conditions show a disposition to jump to untimely heights.
Sir Hubert Murray expects to return to Papua before Christmas.