Shell Co. Rebuilds in Rabaul
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Has the Rapopo Move Been Scrapped?
Prom a Special Correspondent rE Shell Company is building per manent staff houses for its Rabaul staff. It is expected that these will be completed within the next three months—at present the staff is quartered at the Ascot Hotel, Rabaul.
After the houses are finished the Company will put in bulk storage tanks at their area down Malaguna Road.
Rabaul’s man-in-the-street thinks that this building activity on the part of the influential Shell Company indicates that they "know something” and that Rabaul is destined to be rebuilt permanently on its present site and not moved down Kokopo way.
It is quite evident, at all events, that if the Australian Government does not do something definite soon in the way of establishing the capital at Rapopo, Rabaul will be found to have just re built itself, permanently, and without benefit of Town Plan.
Mr. K. V. Macguire, who was an Administrative Officer in Fiji from 1933 to 1948, and who later became Deputy Colonial Secretary, Mauritius, has been transferred to Northern Rhodesia as Chief Establishment Officer.