W. & H. Funds
pp. 105-106 · Read in the full issue
[?]ister's Headache In New Guinea
From Our Own Correspondent
Moresby, Jan. 28
could be that, at long last, the iglorious days of Works and [ousing on Manus Island are bered. >thing has been said officially; it is well-known that the recent to this criticised outpost by ralian Air and Navy Minister [ahon concerned the unhappy ionship between money poured id work put out. *. McMahon would very much to send Works and Housing ing—lock, stock and barrel — take over the job of building us defences with Service per el; but, unfortunately, the ralian Services are not exactly ting with manpower, and a number of those that are able have been packed off to ireparation of the Cocos Island ?ld, in the Indian Ocean, is Mr. McMahon with trickiesfof all nosers—how to value for money from Works
and Housing. The outcome of his visit will probably be a less am bitious programme that can be more easily supervised, and a gradual influx of Services engineers whenever they are available.
Unfortunately Mr. McMahon dashed through Moresby too quickly to notice the W. & H. office set-up, where a good deal of his
lost money is drained off in main taining in luxury a staff of clerks that is out of all proportion to the works being carried out.
At the Namanula Hospital,.
Rabaul, NG, on January 31, a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs.
B. White, of Bali Plantation.
Mr. John Redman and Mr. E.
Turnbull of the Commonwealth Bank, Rabaul, NG, have returned to Australia.
The Rev. K. W. Kalian and Mrs.
Kalian, who were recently married, flew to New Guinea from Sydney in early February to join the Bap tist mission in the central High lands.