The New Rabaul

Good Work by DO Bates

Prom Our Own Correspondent District officer bates is to be complimented on the way he is cleaning up Rabaul.

The secondary scrub has been cut down and most of the roads have been graded.

Preparations are well in hand for tem porary wharfage for 10,000-ton vessels.

Work has been completed on the Euro

pean school, opened on July 1, with Mrs.

Guy Black in charge.

A marked improvement has been effected in the sanitary arrangements in China-town.

The telephone line betwen Rabaul and Kqkopo will shortly be completed. The roadway to Kokopo, despite the recent heavy rams, is now in very fair condi tion.

If the Administration will only give this energetic and capable officer the sup port and assistance he deserves, condi tions generally in New Britain should soon improve.