Treatment Of Cargo In Lae

A visitor took these photographs re cently to show how cargo is mishandled under present arrangements in the port of Lae, New Guinea. Reading from the left, the pictures show:— 1 • —A consignment of paint, dumped in a pool of water. 2 and 3.—Smashed cases, some contain ing nails, others glass louvres, dilmped anywhere, some in surface water. 4.—These miscellaneous goods were thrown off haphazard, under the eaves of the goods sheds. There are no gutters on the sheds—water from the occasional showers pours down on the cargo.

The traveller said: “No one cares. I thought I was back in Sydney*’’