Swimming Pool

Wasted Effort

Moresby Not interested in Swimming Pool

Port Moresby, June 1.

DESPITE strenuous efforts by a new committee, the public of Port Moresby is still showing

negligible interest in swimming pool appeal. This nldnth, hard working Tom Fowler and a couple of helpers organised a first-class athletic carnival on Ela Beach Oval; and after days of hard work and much publicity were rewarded with a crowd that would not have done justice to a Punch-and-Judy show.

Receipts just about covered expenses.

As far as the pool is concerned, the workers wasted their valuable time.

It is hard to understand why the Moresby public consistently fails to show any signs of civic pride and why the big business houses do not en courage the provision of amenities.

Most employers admit that one of their main problems is holding re cruits from Australia; yet none will do anything to help in making life here more attractive.

The situation now is that the com mittee has been granted an excellent site on Ela Beach, at the foot of Lawes Road and has about £1,300 in hand, which has taken two years to raise. Several plans have been drawn for pools of varying size, but until more money is forthcoming, no start can be made.

Mr. W. Dean of the PWD, Santo, New Hebrides, has returned per manently to Australia.