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Pacific Islands Monthly, 14 December 1940Vol. XI, No. 5

improving Port Moresby

p. 22 · Read in the full issue

Harbour

From Our Own Correspondent

Port Moresby, Nov. 22.

A DREDGE arrived here recently and, within a short time, it is expected that Port Moresby’s harbour will be extensively dredged to improve it for larger vessels. For days now. the dredge with its buckets has been an object of great curiosity to the native Papuans.

The Administration recently called for tenders to strengthen and enlarge the local wharf.

Mr. R. Irwin, who for a number of years had been manager of Mogubu plantation in the Abau District, Eastern Papua, arrived in Australia recently to live in retirement. He was accompanied by his daughter Miss Debbie Irwin.