Papeete Water Supply
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Pollution
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Papeete, Nov. 7.
A HEAVY landslide in the Fauiaua Valley (for which we are indebted to the wood-choppers who are destroying our forest trees) has so fouled our Papeete water supply that we are enjoying the luxury of mud baths.
The Fautaua River water is so charged with silt from the landslide that the filters at the city waterworks cannot clear it.
The appointment of Ralph Thomas Gore as Judge of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Papua-New Guinea was gazetted in Canberra on January 10. It is retrospective to December 1, 1945.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Seton expect to sail from Sydney on their return to their home in the Solomon Islands about the end of this month. He rendered distinguished service in the Allied Intel ligence Bureau, in the south-west Pacific, from 1942, until the surrender of Japan.