Which Will be Highlands

Lae Or Madang?

Port

'HE building of the bridge across the Markham River at Mark ham Point is steady but slow ogress. It is half-way across and is believed the worst of the job w is over.

Preparations had been made to ild a bridge across the Erap—an portant tributary of the Mark in on the north side of the Mark in Valley, giving access to the per Markham—when the banks the river at the site selected col •sed, and the plan had to be mdoned. Some of the material the bridge had already been as nbled. Another site, further up the high country, has been )sen, and the bridge should be oss the Erap by the end of the :r. t is planned then to carry on Markham Valley Road west rds, to cross the Upper Mark n, and on across the Markham tnu Divide to Kainantu. leanwhile, other people are try to hurry on the road link be ien Gusap and Madang. .Ithough most people expect that ultimate port of the Central hlands district will be Madang, people of Lae still are confident t when they get their road up Markham Valley to Kainantu, ling in with the Hagen-Gusap ntral Highlands) road there, Lae become the port of the Central hlands. here is much interest in this ,lry of road communications, as veen the seaports of Lae and iang and the Highlands, astqr White, of the Seventh Day entist Mission, a year ago, came by jeep, from Kainantu to Lae. was held up at one river, and to change jeeps there—other ; the journey was completed by i in 12 hours.