Pacific

Islands

Monthly

Vol. X. No. 9.

April 16, 1940

[Registered at the G.P.0., Sydney l for transmission by post as a newspaper .J

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A new photograph of Salamaua, New Guinea, from which a new road is to be built, up over the mountains in the left background, to Wau, chief town of the Morobe Goldfield, 50 miles inland. This is the town impulsively selected by Mr. W. M. Hughes, as the new capital of New Guinea; but his selection was cancelled when it was pointed out that nearly all the mainland area, contiguous to the overcrowded isthmus, is bottomless mangrove swamp.