For Government

They Did Not Wait For Government Progress of Rabaul

R A A Rabaul, June 15.

ABAUL residents who have prospered are showing their confidence in the town bw ploughing their profits back into itJ Rabaul Butchery Ltd. has just sunk something like £25,000 in the erection of new premises in Mala guna Road: a 35-tons Freezer; deep freeze units; specially designed and glassed-in showcases ensuring that the public is well served for their meat and small goods.

Very soon, too, the delicatessen., cafe and candy store will be opened.

Many people have suggested that this shop is ideally situated for a. roadhouse but “one thing at a time”' replies the management. Mr. Dick Gault was responsible for the erection and fitting out of the shop.

The United Builders Co, housed and. installed the Freezer and built the Queensland-style home for Mr.

Con Pappus, the presiding genius.

After a wait of two years for the electric equipment, the Pacific bakery can be justly proud of its j new business premises. The build ing is of fibro-cement, entirely wired against rats and flies.

This is an all-Chinese concern,.

August Chan, Gabriel Sing Yipp and E. Achok being the Directors.

Though the initial cost was around £lO,OOO they are already planning additions and improve ments.

The Chinese are steadily moving out of the dust bowl of tin shanties allotted them in the x first days of post-war rehabilitation. Standard Services has moved its retail busi ness to a well-planned shop in Yarra Avenue and George Kui is building at the same end of the town.

The tin shanties are being re placed by decent dwellings, quite a few of timber. The “Single Men’s Club” a derelict building in Main Avenue, had gone and a family now live in reasonable comfort in a new home erected on the spot. The Club has folded up—all the men have married.

Passengers who left by air from Honiara, BSI, for Australia on June 24 included Father Palmer of the i Roman Catholic Mission, Honiara, who is travelling to Brisbane and New Zealand on duty; Dr. Robert Black who has completed a malarial survey in the Protectorate for the South Pacific Commission; Mr. B. J.

Lotze, manager of the Government Trade Scheme, on a business trip to Australia; Mrs. M. B. Hamilton who is going to England on leave; and Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Palmer, who are leaving the Protectorate after spending two years with the Government Trade Scheme.