Some Pleasant

Port Moresby Has

Native Street Names

LJORESBY has some new street ▼1 names and the suburb, loosely called the “Lawes Road area,” as been called Eladorina.

Some of the new street names re; Aviat, Elanese, Vanama, Ela lakana, Chester, Ogoa and Davara.

Just for the record —and perhaps )r historians of the future—this . what the Motu names mean: ELADORINA —Heights of Ela.

Cla was one of the early native llages in the Port Moresby local y, and later was abandoned in vour of another site.).

ELANESE—Native place name— terally “the ridge of Ela.”

VANAMA—Native place name, >rmerly a native garden area.

ELA MAKANA—Native place ame meaning the saddle of the ill.

OGOA—The area where the na ve people used to collect black one used in painting themselves t ceremonial dances.

DAVARA—Native place name, :erally “the road to the sea.”

Chester Street was selected as one the names because of the his rical association of the Chester mily with Papua. The late Mr.

M. Chester raised the British ig at Port Moresby on April 4. 83, taking possession in the name the British Government. Mr. lester was then a Thursday Island Scial, acting on instructions from e Queensland Government, and her members of the family have rved with the Administration er since. The Superintendent of ores and Transport, Mr. W. N. M. lester, is a grandson, and he has o sons in the District Services jpartment, making a total of ar generations on the records of e Territory Public Service.