Needs Of Rabaul District

The Rabaal Chamber of Commerce, with representatives of 13 different com panies present, recently dealt with the following matters:

Condition Of Kokopo Road

After discussions which emphasised the large quantity of copra and cocoa pro duced in the Kokopo District, the quantity of consumer goods sent by road from Rabaul to the district, and the number of vechiles registered, it was decided to write to the District Commissioner, re questing immediate action to maintain the Kokopo Road in a serviceable condition.

Postal Services

It was decided to approach the Post Master in connection with the following matters:— Overseas Telephone Service.—For ex ample: Under present system of charges the manager. Burns Philp & Co. could register a radio-telephone call to Aus tralia; then, having business with the manager, New Guinea Company, could have his call at the New Guinea Co. office.

In this case the call would be charged to New Guinea Company—the telephone on which call was actually taken. The Post master is now requested to take necessary steps so that each firm be charged only with calls registered by its own officers.

Insufficient advertised mail notices: There also were complaints of late de

livery of sea mails because of unsatis factory system of receiving mails from ships, and delayed sorting, particularly of 2nd class matter.—Post Master requested to improve these services.

Land Board

In view of their recent efforts to assist in this direction, members of the Chamber were disappointed that a greater number of applications for building blocks were not recorded by Europeans.

At the Port Moresby Licensing' Court in May, an application for a provisional licence for a proposed new hotel at the new suburb of Boroko was withdrawn. The appli cation had been made by Walter Ambrose Morrissey. According to plans lodged with the application, the proposed hotel was planned to be built off the Rouna Road, at Boroko.