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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1957Vol. XXVII, No. 6

New Newspaper Building for Rabaul

p. 35 · Read in the full issue

S photograph shows two ibourers at work on a block longside the church, in Mango je. Rabaul, early in December; ;he lines of concrete they were ag in were stated to be the lations of a building for a >aper and printing enterprise, ted by a Kokopo-Rabaul group. b been under consideration for ust two years. anwhile, the South Pacific Post ed, of Port Moresby, has an ;ed that it will begin publish 'he Rabaul Times in January, rial for the weekly will be red in Rabaul and sent by air ort Moresby, and the news

paper will be set up and printed in Moresby and flown back to Rabaul for distribution.

The original Rabaul Times was established about 40 years ago, by Messrs. Hamilton and Moulton, and edited by well known Gordon Thomas; but it —like the Papuan Courier, of Port Moresby, and the Morobe News, of Lae—was a Jap anese invasion casualty in 1942, and was not revived. t Mr. R. Angeloni, Administrative officer, New Hebrides, left Vila on six months’ vacation leave in mid- December.