Cost Of A New Capital
p. 64 · Read in the full issue
IT is not surprising that the Australian authorities were glad to accept the ex cuse created by the war to leave the Ad ministrative headquarters of New Guinea in Rabaul.
The cost of removal of the capital site to Lae was estimated by the Griffiths’
Committee at £248,000, and the Amalga mation Committee estimates that that estimate was ‘more likely to prove to be below the amount required than above it”.
In fact, the committee placed the figure at £280,000, and after going into further figures, added another £90,000 for re movals and so forth.