Hydro-Electricity Or
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Oil Engines?
Difficult Outlook For Fiji
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, July 12.
SINCE the outbreak of war. our abso lute dependence upon fuel oil has made itself felt throughout the whole Colony. The position of the mining industry, in the event of supplies being cut off, would be precarious.
Some people are wondering why our numerous rivers and waterfalls should not be harnessed to provide electricity newer. Instead, half a dozen diesel engines try inadequatelv to cope with our needs.
Of course, it is late now to do anything in this direction, owing to the difficulty of obtaining machinery, but, with the coming of peace, attention might be giv°n to the promotion of a hydro-electric plan for Fiji.
Mr. John W. Wilkinson, who was well known in Papua, was among the men from Papua who recently enlisted and his most recent address was a training camp in Queensland, where he is a driver in a Supply Column.