Cinderella Town

Rabadi Still P-Ng

Now Has a Site but No Money

From Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, October 1 f ITTLE, if any, notice has been taken of the views of members f Rabaul Advisory Council on the ebuilding of Rabaul. This was the ecided opinion of those at the Sep ;mber meeting of the TAC. A ;tter has been sent to the District bmmissioner asking that the Coun il be informed of projected develop ments with regard to the town so mt it might have an opportunity of the views of the people horn it represented.

Mr. J. L. Chipper said that as the mstralian Government would save ;veral millions of pounds as a re lit of the decision to leave Rabaul here it is, it was only reasonable > expect that some of this money ould be spent in local improve icnts. He said that when the Act ig Administrator, the Director of tealth, Director of Native Affairs id Government Secretary recently sited Rabaul, members of the TAC ere elated at the opportunity to icet them. But the meeting was i utter fiasco and with one excep 3n, the Council’s suggestions were nored, Mr. Boisen, when putting a motion the meeting that the Government J called on to provide a special ant for the rebuilding of Rabaul, id that due to the Government’s day over a decision on the Rabaul wn site, Rabaul had missed all the land-outs” that had gone to other NG towns when money was plenti 1. Business firms who were now ecting permanent buildings in abaul faced costs at least three nes as high as those of three years :o.

Northbound from Auckland on Septem ber TOFUA (left to right): SISTER M.

DOSMAS, SMSM, transferred from the [?]ourdes TB Hospital, Sydney, to Tonga-

tabu—her first time in the Islands. MR. and MRS. E. C. ELTON, of Paraparaumu Beach, NZ, made a holiday visit to their son Athol, of Apia Radio staff, MRS.

T. M. THEOBOLD and Constance Lusia were visiting relatives In Apia. MR.

TUI VAKA, of Nukualofa, took time off from his job in Auckland to pay a holiday visit home.