A New Area For Suva
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DESPITE difficulties created by pheno menal rain in recent weeks, a good start has been made on the Walu Bay reclamation, which is to enlarge the area available for industrial buildings in Suva. The Old Hospital Hill is steadily being removed and the spoil is being placed along the harbour foreshore.
Attention also was directed to this area by the arrival, on May 23, of the “British Knight,” the first tanker of the British Petroleum Co. to visit Suva in peacetime, and which discharged petrol direct into the company’s new tanks at Walu Bay.
The mangrove swamp which once was Walu Bay is disappearing under a broad, dry, level expanse which will add greatly to the value of both industrial area and docks.
Miss Joan Miles left Brisbane recently for Port Moresby to take up a secretarial position in one of the local hotels.
The Rev. C. F. Gribble, General Secre tary of Methodist Overseas Mission, with Mr. F. Fielding, Brisbane, a member of the Mission Board, arrived in Rabaul by Qantas aircraft on May 20. They will investigate the rebuilding problem of the Methodist Mission in New Guinea.