You Must Be In It, Or Else

When Burns Philp moved into their new store in the top town of Lae, NG, in July (see photo elsewhere), it didn't take long for business people still down in the old sea-level town area to realise that the customers had moved, too.

The Bank of NSW, whose new premises “on top” will not be completed for about another three months, found things so quiet that they decided to take temporary premises in Central Avenue—just across from where their new building will be—rather than wait out the three months in the nearly deserted “old town”.

The bank also opened an agency at the Native Market on August 2 so now the natives have a choice of banks to look after their money. The Commonwealth Bank has had an agency at the Market for some time now. was completely destroyed during the war; and, after that, despised town planners decreed that the new town should be built on the Terrace, one hundred feet above the coastal flat. Residents kicked against it—but one by one (h " ha ” succumbed.)