New Stores in Madang

These are part of a dozen large corru gated iron stores being built by the Administration near the waterfront in Madang, at a cost of £12,000. The structures were formerly placed at Manus by the Americans, and were taken to pieces and brought here. The Highlands are still dependent on air transport, so there is much demand in Madang, the nearest sea-port, for storage space for goods going in, and produce going out.

Madang has doubled in size in two years. District Commissioner F. A. Ben sted is working on a road in through the Ramu country, to the Highlands, He hopes to get through soon to Dumpu, which is only 30 miles air-line from Goroka—but there is a lot of mountain country in that 30 miles. The Japs made a jeep road right through from Madang to the Highlands, and the DC is trying to re-locate it.

The increasing number of people who have to spend from four to 24 hours in Madang bless the enterprise of Mrs.

Flo Giimore, whose new hotel provides commodious and cool lounges and dining room, and can accommodate 30 comfort ably, “and 50 at a pinch”. Apparently ample a couple of years ago, the accom modation now is insufficient, and a sub stantial addition to the bar, and more bungalow bedrooms in the grounds, are being provided.

!f Miss Kiran Mishra, 8.A., Dip. Ed., has returned to Fiji after studying at the Universities of Delhi and London. She went to India on a Government of India scholarship, gaining her B.A. and Dip. Ed. at Delhi. Later she went to London on a Colonial Development and Welfare Scholarship where she gained an Associateship at London University following post-graduate studies in education. Miss Mishra is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ram Narayan Mishra of Viseisei.