Improving Honiara Port
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Facilities
From Our Own Correspondent
Honiara, Dec. 29
Commander Bolton, Of The Hy
drographic Branch of the RAN, is expected to arrive here by Trans oceanic flying-boat at the end of Jan uary, He is to make an accurate survey of Point Cruz (Honaira) and the bays on each side of the point, in order that plans for new wharves may be drawn.
At present, local shipping, guided by recently erected markers, anchors on both westerly and easterly sides of the point.
Last week a pontoon dock was towed into position on the eastern side. A ramp is under construction to permit loading directly from trucks. From this point a new road has been bulldozed, as a short cut to the Government stores.
Heavy cargo unloading, such as from RMS “Kurimarau” (BSl’s main link with the outside world as it makes fairly regu lar six-weekly runs to Suva and back), is done at Kukum, two miles down the coast, at one of the big American-built docks which, patched and repaired, is still in usable condition.