Bay Area
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Developing the Oro Bay Area Comwlth. Works and CSIRO On Job
A Commonwealth Works
Department survey party is in the Oro Bay region of Papua making a detailed survey for a new wharf and new bridges.
The wharf is to accommodate ships of up to three thousand tons, and the bridges are to replace the old structures along the wartime Oro Bay-Popondetta road. The road itself is still in good condition and will need little work to get it back into use again.
This is the first stage of the plan for the development of the Oro Bay region where a CSIRO natural re sources survey team have just started work. (Eriama Estates have taken up 15,000 acres in this area for the purpose of growing kenaf and possibly other fibre crops).
U Madame Pambrun, wife of Tahiti’s Chief of Land Control, journeyed to France per Caledonien in June.