New Road To
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Wau
From a Now Guinea Correspondent I HAVE heard various tales about the Wau Road, mostly in its favour. I met a lieutenant onlv yesterday who is working on it with a labour line, on maintenance, and another lieutenant who was on it some time ago. Both say it is a 30-miles-an-hour road. It should have a very important bearing on the future of that part of the Territory, They argued for years over which route it was to take, and finally voted some thing over £200,000 to run it the short route—Salafnaua to Wau. But the cir cumstances of war have caused a ready made road to be in hand for the future.
I saw a large section of it awhile back, when flying up the Markham Valley to the left of Nadzab. What I saw of it, until it struck out to the left through the forest, looked a very good job indeed, and it looked to be well used, and I saw some traffic on it from the air. I under stand there is a fair amount of traffic on it at present.