Bridges Separate
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[?]Portant Road
Bridges Separate [?]e and Mt. Hagen
HE most important public work in Papua and New Guinea — namely the construction of a ►tor-road from Lae into the stern Highlands—is making lady progress.
When four bridges over the head ier tributaries of the Markham 3 completed, the last link will in; and a motor-vehicle may »n go right through from Lae, the Huon coast, to Mount igen, in the Western Highlands, hey can do it now, by fording rtain streams in dry weather.) The District Commissioner in Lae [r H. Niall), told a PIM repre atative in December that the st bridge, over the Maralumi eek, would be finished in De mber; and the next, over the big imu River, in February or March.
Ihe first piles for the crossing er the Leron River —to get posi >n—were being driven, and the Idge would be under way by June July. This bridge, including the rthworks at each end, would be 100 feet long The Markham road ►uld arrive at the Leron in March.
Ihat left the biggest and nastiest 5 still to be done —the bridge over e Umi River. With the com 3tion of this structure, the job ►uld be finished.