Plea for Rabaul Footpaths

WHY not a footpath or two in Rabaul?” asks one who signs limself “Disillusioned Newcomer.”

He proceeds: “In addition to making the streets safer for pedestrians, it would do something to remedy the bedraggled appearance of the town.

“To walk along Malaguna Road or Mango Avenue when there is traffic about- —and especially at night, when the pictures audience is dispersing : — is an unenviable experience. You either leap for your life, or take what’s coming—and that is usually a speeding lorry with a carefree native at the wheel ... I am sure the metropolis of the Bismarck Archi pelago can do better than this, if it wants to.”

Mr. and Mrs. W. Watson, of Rarotonga, were visitors to Auck land during April and May.

Mr. J. R. Mulligan (formerly Secretary of the Australian Depart ment of Territories) has been appointed Australian representative on the Board of the British Phos phate Commission. The BPC— now a huge organisation—works the phosphate deposits on the is lands of Nauru (a Trust Territory held jointly by Britain, Australia and New Zealand), Ocean Island (part of Britain’s Gilbert and Ellice Colony), and Christmas Island (in the Indian Ocean, and recently ac quired by Australasia). Mr. Halligan represents Australian interests, in relation to Nauru and Christmas.

He also is Australia’s senior Com missioner on the South Pacific Commission; and he goes periodi cally to New York to represent

Australia before the Trustee Coun cil of UNO.