Goroka’s Hydro Project

[?]Ow On,

[?]Ow Off With

Goroka, Nov. 26.

SI mid-October, Commonwealth De

partment of Works personnel :re withdrawn from the Hydro Elec

c Project at Goroka, which has

en under way for 2 years, and Mr. mes Wilton, an ex-miner who built i race, was given a job on another

oject.

Reason: No funds for 1954-55.

Local reaction, both official and ivate, was prompt and loud. By e time the Legislative Council met Moresby on November 1, the Ad nistration announced that it had und the money to continue the oject which will revolutionise >roka and release a lot of aircraft ace for items other than liquid Not so fast was the Common alth Department of Works. It .s not till mid-November that Mr. ilton was allowed to get back, and if to emphasise the danger so rrowly avoided, three inches of in fell in the following week and has been raining ever since, rhe team building the power use had not been sighted late in ivember. Comworks officials say nberra has to approve the funds d they are not budging until Can rra does just that. Moresby is ent. At Goroka, Wilton can be led upon to keep the race safe rough the wet season; but Goroka sidents would like to know who is sponsible for these whimsical re rsals of policy, and why a half

finished project is abandoned to the risk of total destruction by oncom ing wet season rains? And, finally, why it is necessary to run to Can berra to get an OK for avoiding what obviously was a bungle.

a D^ r , in g October, 72 St. John’s Ambulance Certificates were pre -5c^ t ( L to s^^ ents of two Seventh- Mo * dventlst schools in Central New Guinea. The first ceremony was held at their Coral Sea ttSSn College, seven miles west of Goroka. District Commissioner S?.ri?nt 0 pr , esented . 52 certificates to s tudent s from places as far apart nnrl th O W f St f rn n lSlandS ’ East - West |£ d Central p apua, Wabag and Eena Kamantu and Chimbu Mrs C eland (wife of the Admin istrator) and Mrs. Downs were nre 20n^turiIn^^ef C ° P resenta tion P (to 20 students) took place at the SDA 2O miles south east of Kamantu.