Delay In Port Moresby's
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Water Supply
From Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, July 8.
PORT Moresby’s new water supply scheme, which was expected to be completed in June, has been delayed through difficulty in obtaining certain necessary equipment. However, it should be functioning by the end of August.
Many complaints are heard locally concerning the dangerous state of the town’s roads, due to the open trenches for water pipes. There appears to be some confusion as to whose job it is to fill them in.
After a Pacific cruise extending over 13 months in his 100-ton yacht, “Golden Hind”, Mr. H. R. Jenkins returned to Auckland. NZ. on July 1. He visited most of the Polynesian groups.
Lieut.-Colonel H. E, Woodman, of the AIF, formerly a District Officer in New Guinea, was granted a decree nisi in the Sydney Divorce Court, on July 8, on the ground of desertion —his wife had refused to live in New Guinea. Mrs.
Woodman resisted the suit, claiming that residence in New Guinea injured her health.