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Memorial to Sir Hubert Murray

To Build It

long-planned memorial to e Sir Hubert Murray, of Australia’s most dis hed Territories Adminis — is expected to take lape very soon. about time. The plan ars to have been dragged, rears, at the tail of Depart apathy and indifference. >ert died 19 years ago. littees of Papuan citizens, mds of Sir Hubert, in Port r and in Sydney, subscribed or a memorial, at least 12 ;o. With a Commonwealth ;he sum was £3,000. ction of those interested a plain inscribed stone, tribute to Sir Hubert, in a place in Port Moresby. The of Musgrave and Douglas was suggested. 5 favoured other places, and elaborate memorial, long argument, it finally ided that an area of swamp i the foreshore of the port, lere the road passes the its way to Konedobu (Ad tion centre) should be i and converted into the Murray Memorial Park, vns, gardens, tennis courts inscribed fountain.

Big Plan Approved

igh some committee 5 still liked the idea of a .1 in the town’s centre, the lan was generally approved landed over to the Public Dr some other department lementation. that, everyone seemed to bout it.

chairman (Judge Gore) E. A. James protested to the Admmistrator about the delay and the frustration; and, at long last the filling and reclamation and shaping-up of the Memorial Par£ were commenced.

That part of the job was completed in September; but the officials concerned were unwilling to proceed much further until the reclamation has “settled”, and some lawns and shrubs had taken root.

It should be an attractive little park, when completed. The official opening should take place early in The area now lies on the fore-

road ’it f S ° ? lde of the load th? t f nde 4 to take the that th . f ° r eshore, later, so ¥ em ° nal Park will be on tht ™ g o ht ' h fl nd 01 \ nort heast side of the mam thor^ghfare. - = Ths cost of living index for Indians and Europeans in Fiii showed an insignificant fall during the third quarter of the year according to figures published in October. p a in The index, based on the figure of 100 in 1939, stood at 260 in July for Europeans and tell one potat IndianS feU by tW °