Bougainville Airstrip
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During the first quarter of 1944, the cost-of-living figures of Indian labourers on Viti Levu Fiji, earning less than £2 per week, has decreased. CSR Company’s labourers have had their cost-of-living bonus reduced from 2/0i per day to 1/9 h per day; and Government labourers in country districts from 1/6 per day to 1/4.
There has been no fall in the cost-of-living in Suva.
The Rev. C. W. J. Mannering, LTh, of the Methodist Mission, is doing deputation work in Victoria until the way opens for him to return to overseas work in New Britain.
Mr. F. W. Machm, an old resident of the Solomon Islands—he left there in 1938—is now the proprietor of an old established newsagency m Ipswich, Queensland.
A party of British Army officers, who visited the South Pacific area some months ago, inspect, in company with US Army personnel, a Bougainville airstrip then in the process of being “steel matted.”