Silands

Pacific

Monthly

July, 1960

Vol. XXX. No. 12

tablWed 1930

sieved at the G.P.0.. . K ransmisshi by post a a newspaper

The sub-district headuarters of Wabag, perched on a rainy ridge 6,500 ft.up in the Western Highlands of New Guinea,is a growing attraction for tourists anxious to see the New Guinea wilds without, at the same time, straying too far from the amenities of civilisation. And July is a busy month for visitors, for on the Australian mainland it's winter. Wabag station is grouped aroud its all-important airtrip- 3,810 ft. long now -although is was nothing but a sweet potato patch when the first aircraft put down there in an emergency just before the war.