Rains Tear Rabaul’S
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Roads Apart
RABAUL, April 2.
AT long last, it has stopped rain ing; and before this day was two hours old, four different citizens had asked me to go out and take a look at their roads.
They surely are a picture! Every where, the rushing waters have scoured deep channels through the pumice formation. There are holes, in some places two feet deep, across practically every thoroughfare, the result of bad formation and insuffi cient gutters and drains. Works and Housing have been roadmaking in this place for years—but there was little permanence in their opera tions.
Conditions are worst in the Tun nel Hill Road area, the “escape route.” If there had been an erup tion this morning, escape could have been accomplished only on foot. No vehicles could get over
these tracks.
Judy Tudor.
Japanese ship “Sumiyoshi Maru”, in Rabaul harbour. (Casuarina Studio photo.)