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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 May 1953Vol. XXIII, No. 10

Port Moresby

p. 11 · Read in the full issue

Public Market at Koki, Port Moresby

AT the suggestion of the Port Moresby Advisory Council the Administration will erect a public market on the Native Reserve along the Koki foreshore.

A public market has been needed at Port Moresby for a long time.

Residents have envied their Rabaul contemporaries the fine supply of fruit and vegetables available at the native market in that town.

A building at Koki will not pro duce vegetables, but it may en courage native growers to develop a regular trade instead of the casual system of distribution now prevail ing.