Wharves —Actual or Planned
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Planned
From Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, Jan. 25.
LAE was the first in the Papua- New Guinea Territory with a brand new wharf and sheds and the old days of handling cargo off barges are fast being forgotten.
Now the new Samarai wharf, built under contract by Fraser & Lam perd, is in use, with its copra and other cargo sheds, and at Madang contractor Tom Huxley is well ad vanced on his wharf-construction contract.
In Port Moresby, Hornibrook Constructions Limited hope to have the first half of their wharf con tract completed by around April.
This will give the town 320 feet of new wharf with new approaches, and work will then start on the remaining part of the 700-ft wharf head. This will be a big advance from the rickety old structure in herited from the pre-war and war years.
Works Department is currently calling tenders for completion of the new wharf structure at Kavieng, where two approaches have already been built by the department. The wharfhead on which tenders are being called is to be 394 feet long and 37 wide, with timber decking and steel piles.