New Airstrip Being Built
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At Chimbu
Prom Our Ow« Correspondent
Port Moresby, Jan. 24.
AREAL job of work is being: done at Chimbu, NG Highlands, by the District Services staff, under ADO B. Hayes, on construct ing a new airstrip. Even Civil Aviation is full of praise, for Chimbu has little level land.
With Chimbu boys, digging sticks, perhaps an odd pick and shovel, and locally made coolie-type baskets for carrying thousands of yards of fill, the ADO is carrying out a job which normally calls for powerful and expensive mechanised equip ment.
Neither passengers nor pilots liked the old strip. It was blunted at one end by sharply rising ground, and at the other by a drop over a gully. It abounded in tricky cross air-currents.
The new strip angles across the old one, and will be twice as long as the original.
Mr. R. R. C. Caten, Assistant Public Relations Officer, Fiji, is at present on leave in Australia.