[?] ork Begins Soon

On US Tracking Stations In NG

American research space track ’ stations to be built on Manus i Buka probably will be com ted by the end of this year, 1 Administrator of Papua-New linea, Sir Donald Cleland, has jounced.

IE sites have been allocated, the Australian Government has wed and we expect the Ameri will begin work as soon as ?le and finish by late Decem- Sir Donald said, e major station will be built on Negros Island, which is separ from Manus Island a huge naval and air base during the d World War—by a narrow id. e station on Buka will be built plantation on the north-western f the island, 600 miles south of Manus. each case, Administration land Deing used, Sir Donald said. He ted that there would be some for local people during instal e Manus Administrative district population of 18,000, and Buka i’s population is 10,000. s believed in Port Moresby that of the Allied wartime base on is will be incorporated in the is station site. Units of Papua- Guinea’s Pacific Islands’ Regi moved out of Manus Island, mildings last month to new bar at Moem, near Wewak, on the nainland. 1 of May saw a five-man team iterminedly non-talking Ameri on their way to Buka. ly might have gone clean gh their last stop at Rabaul un :ed had not a Sydney news emblazoned their purpose on ont-page. The deputation, said icwspaper, was going to Buka rry out last checks before in tion of a satellite tracking sta -3 five-man team of satellite men ed by William Myklebost, who ieved to have US Defence De icnt connections, but in Rabaul nied the proposed bases had de implications. t previously a party of 23 Aus is and Americans, among them >entatives of General Dynamics the Pacific Missile Range, had 1 Manus.