Concrete Bricks, Too

Beast concrete building blocks be made within the next few ;hs at a new factory at Six Mile, Moresby. e factory, owned by Concrete stries (NG) Ltd., was opened last year.

January it began producing ist concrete pipes and other nets. e manager (Mr. Barry Combe)

and his staff are now preparing for the second stage of the factory’s de velopment the installation of a machine to make building blocks.

In Sydney in February the man aging director of Concrete Industries (Australia) Ltd. (Mr. K. B C Milburn) said the machine had been ordered in the United States. De livery was expected in about three months.

Mr. Milburn said: “This modern, automatic precision machine will produce high-quality blocks for building houses, schools, hospitals, administration buildings and native quarters.

“We believe that its installation at our Moresby factory will have an important effect on the building industry in Papua-New Guinea.”