Highland Farmers Tal
p. 160 · Read in the full issue
To Mr. Wilson
Port Moresby, Dec.
A DEPUTATION from the Hi land Farmers’ and Sett!
Association met the Assist Administrator, Mr. Rupert Will at Goroka, NG Eastern Highla: on December 2, and presented ! with a case for a three year plai the area. (Mr. Wilson is hand: the new three-year plan for Territory.) The association (whose presic is Mr. Jim Taylor), told Mr. Wi] that a road from the coast to Highlands was not an essentia] the next three years, but it was sential to gravel or seal the Hi land road within a 10 mile radiu the busier airstrips at Kianai Goroka, Minj and Hagen, and stall steel or concrete bridges.
The Goroka hydro-electric schi should also be developed along lines the Association had sugge* in a report to the Government £ retary earlier in the year (and acted upon).
The Assn, also has something say to Mr. Wilson on the quesl of land application bottlenecks