New Guinea Mainland

LAE, Nov. 1 LAE Advisory Council has been advised officially that any further progress in street ighting, sealing of town roads and tew water supply depends on funds elng made available. Apparently he sewerage scheme also has been elegated to the background.

Shortage of funds has resulted i the cutting down of contract ire tipper trucks on the Wau-Labu oad, and in slow payment of ccounts.

Port Moresby completed a fine !-ed Cross Hall, and efforts are now eing made to form Red Cross Dmmittees throughout the Terri- Dry. Mrs. J. K. Murray, wife of le Administrator, is directing this ampaign. Lae Council will con sne a public meeting to form a -ed Cross branch.

Lae is proud of the new wharf nd customs shed at Milfordhaven, ut the approaches to these struc ires require attention. There is eed for a car park, but acceptance I this responsibility is being assed from Department to Depart lent in the best mainland manner.

Only 537 electors enrolled in the ew Guinea Mainland electorate >r the Legislative Council elections -an indication of the apathy lown towards “elected representa on.” In Port Moresby only, where iere are seven candidates, is there ay interest.

Two births have been recorded iring the month—a son to Mr. and !rs. Ron Jones (A.W.A. technician ; the Airstrip) and a daughter to :r. and Mr. J. Debnam (of New uinea Goldfields, Lae) . . .Mr. rch Byrne, Department of Trade id Customs, with his wife, has left r extended leave . . . Mr. Norman aimer, Central Service Station, ae, has gone to Brisbane for 8 eeks . . .Mr. and Mrs. Ron Dear ve have settled in at Goroka with teir son, Graham, having taken r er a Trading venture .. . Mr. S. arrant, following the untimily ;ath of his wife, has disposed of ls business interests in the mtral Highlands, and returned to ie mainland ... An engagement announced between Mr. J. A. amilton, business manager, of orobe Construction Co., and Miss ani White, of Sydney . . . Mr. xjfty” Weedon, manager of the le and Services Club, has gone r a short spell South ... Mr. arman B. Spence is acting as Club anager until his return . . . With e coming of Xmas, Works and ousing staff are moving South for jlidays in large numbers —hoping r the best on the matter of “work its,” and their return to the jrritory. It appears that Manus, tiere a naval programme has not sen interfered with, will be the

Mecca of redundant W. and H. staff in the New Year.

First prosecutions under a police drive to keep the airstrip free of persons other than those whose

duties require them to be in the area, took place recently, when two natives of the Mumeng district were each charged “with entering the precincts of the Lae Aerodrome/’

ier Section 316 of the Air Navi ion Act, and were fined 10/- ;h. The airstrip provides a short ite to the township area from the ia at the rear of the ’drome, don in the future will not be [fined to natives only—the ropean and Asiatic population ire been warned that they, also, i liable to prosecution if found the area without authority, rhe opening of the Lae Golf ib, and the Lae Cricket Associa te postponed through bad ather, took place during October.

Some 80 players and friends at * Golf Club were entertained at ; “19th hole” by the Club Presi lt (Mr. H. L. R. Niall) and Cap ri (Mr. C, Jeffers). . x rhe first round of the Cricket sociation matches resulted in is for Works and Housing and tel Voco. „ . rhe non-activity of the Swim ng Club (which started with a ifare of trumpets, a solid mbership fee of £3/3/-, and a idy-made pool handed over by i Administration) makes it pear that unless some immediate ive to use the pool is made by > Club, the Administration will didraw its offer, and provide a eap public amenity for local idents.