Bridges in Papu [?]

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UK Firm Will Bu[?] Bridges in Papu [?]

ONE of the largest building civil construction firms in United Kingdom, Gei£ Wimpey and Co. Ltd., has W given the job of constructing rco bridges and other enginees projects in the Gulf Papua.

The contract has been let d the Australasian P e t r o 1 ec Company.

Mr. W. S. Black, who recently Agent on the Singai Power Station, has been appofi Project Manager for the contract. Mr. Candlish, who be one of the Site Agents, already arrived in Papua, All technical and other lai is being recruited from Loir The Company has just compl the building of a modern H for the British Malayan PetroL Co. Ltd. and the construction a 27 in. pipe line for the Stat Shire Potteries Board.

Construction of roads in difficult Gulf country—it is lai swamp land —should speed up( search for oil in the rej; Whether the contract has significance in relation to discovery, or whether it is another step in systematic ; search in Papua, is anyr guess. The company’s pubL department has made the cr;* remark that it will probably good for “someone.”

One of the world’s leading fi§ in the oil industry, Lord Strat mond, said in Sydney, in Noera that his company had spc £20,000,000 in the search for oc Papua, but that nothing had! veloped in recent months to n his company any more confi than it was 20 years ago thsj would find oil there.

He described the proposed Is. scale road and engineering won “just another technique and no indication of any impending covery.”

Aramia Hole Abandon!!

Meanwhile the company made the announcement Aranda hole has been abano after “providing geological evioj of some importance.” Only s gas and oil indications encountered in the course, drilling and testing. tl Mr. C. G. Cox, new Commisa of Works, arrived in Honiara, I on October 10. Mr. Cox, who accompanied by Mrs. Cox, formerly an Executive Engines Nyasaland.