Dusty Rabaul

Bitumen Roads For

From a Special Correspondent in Rabaul AT last the Works and Housing Depart ment has struck a blow in a direction of which all approve.

The roads of Rabaul have to be ex perienced to be believed, and the swirls of fine pumice dust that vehicles leave in their wake seeps into everything. Most of the dust roads have been sealed, but pot-holes soon appear again.

Now, at long last —although they have had the machinery for years—the depart ment is using gravel, and a large roller and bitumen. At the end of January Malaguna Road had been done, and also a section of Mango Avenue.

It has stood up to recent heavy rain— as the sealed pumice dust road never did —and we hope that it is an answer to all our prayers.