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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1959Vol. XXX, No. 3

Of the Purari?

p. 51 · Read in the full issue

[?]e Musa Instead Of the Purari?

He P-NG is seeking cheap ) schemes for the towns, authorities are going I with the examination of 2’s big Purari River, which Commonwealth Govern hopes will provide power ih to process bauxite (to be i near Cape York, on the alian mainland), s was first looked at a few ago, when an initial esti for a power station on the ■i to process the material ibout two hundred million is. inwhile, there are some ex in New Guinea who think Papua’s Musa River, in the lern District, not far from would be even more suit than the Purari for the te people. It has the same itage in that it is also in alian Territory and is not to be upset by anything might happen in the Trust tory. would be possible, say the is, to produce three million atts of power from the And there would be )y ports.