Bougainville Notes
pp. 74-75 · Read in the full issue
mHE new road on Small Buka grows apace, and is now up to Ahila Mission and it has been inspected and praised by high officials. They travelled by jeep to near Malasang, in order to get a true picture of the job ahead of
Roadmaster John Cox. They als visited and inspected ground a Ramun Bay, with a view to th establishment of a wharf and copra depot there.
The present set-up of Distric Services at Sohana appears to be very happy one:—Mr. Malcolr Wright, District Commissioner; M: Col. Maclean, Assistant Distric Commissioner; Mr. Denis Jonei Cadet Patrol Officer; Mr. Ro: Clammer, inspector of the RPC and last, but not at all least, Mr. F K. Bartlett, Postmaster and Trea surer. These gentlemen keep th wheels of Administration runnin smoothly.
Within the past month, Bougain ville has been receiving a far bette shipping service than has hithert been experienced, thanks to th efforts of Mr. Fred Archer (Presi dent of the Bougainville Planter Association) and large accumula tions of copra are gradually bein reduced. The vessels most fre quently calling are, the Katiks Duali, Durour, Rauluana, and oc casionally, the Muliama.
M. Desjardins, Administrator i: Chief; has been appointed Resides of Wallis and Futuna, replacin M. Cressone. M. Desjardins, wh arrived in Noumea recently, wi take up his post as soon as a shi is available.
course—and that is becoming a ge industry in Fiji these days—it ?ht be considered the business the Fiji Government also.
To tourist is going to be favour y impressed if he arrives in the all hours of the morning and has spend the first hours of his stay the country sitting upright in a tir awaiting daylight!
Tiere are, of course, two hotels hin 20 miles of the airport; but se cannot always take guests at rt notice. b is hard to believe that, in these s of overcrowded travel, any rist would get himself into a ition whereby he lands un lounced in a strange country at im and has no arrangements 3e for accommodation. But arently some still do. nd, of course, there is no way telling just how many dollar fists have scrapped the idea of >ping off at Fiji just because V arrive in the early hours and then faced with a long car e. ossibly bure type accommodation id Pan American’s own chief at li lives in a very special bure— Id solve the difficulty for both ines and tourist authorities in lIS is a matter on which the air companies and the Fiji Government could probably together for their own good. The e sort of problem of transient travellers occurred in Lae, in T Guinea. Qantas, who are the rnational operators in that Itory, solved it in their own way milding an establishment which rs admirably for these pas sers. fail to see why Nadi accom ation is the concern of the NZ ernment which through its tive air department is the ating authority for the Govern ts of Australia, NZ and the UK aspect of Nadi international air traveller northbound from Mel •ne to Fiji, arriving early at cot, Sydney, for a midnight off, does not expect the Aus an Department of Civil Aviation rovide him with a bed.
id, incidentally, the overseas
terminal at Mascot—a huge tin I— is about as uninspiring as ialdom can make it. With luck might get a cup of tea or Je. But there certainly is no and. if you want to buy a ir or a book, you must walk ig way to the terminal buildings
Na Or Taa.
ae Mocambo, however, is not rely faultless, and attention to
small details would make for more comfort.
Refreshment service could be improved. It functions only when planes are there. Surely people who have come from Fiji towns, to join planes, should get refreshment
while waiting.
Tea-makers should be taught how to make tea. The concoction now handed out, as tea, tastes like the witches’ brew once given children for their bodily good—Senna tea.— JT, at Nadi, 3/10/51.