Windmills For Rabaul’S
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Water Supply
From Our Own Correspondent
Rabaul, June 28.
RABAUL, NG, which has only recently concluded a very wet wet-season, is already short of water; it was being carried to some Administration dwellings in June.
However, when Mr. J. Chipper proposed at a recent meeting of the Town Advisory Council that the Administration should install windmills to augment the water supply (it is all from tanks or wells) the motion failed for want of a seconder.
At present, it costs about £4,000 per annum tq cart water to Ad ministration dwellings. This amount would buy a number of windmills and running cost of same, said Mr.
Chipper, amounted to the price of a few pints of oil per annum.
Population problems will be studied by Dr. Norma McArthur, who has gone to N. Caledonia to work with the SPC for 6 months.