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Work In
The Sepik
Australian Army engineers in January will begin to build three bridges in the Sepik district of New Guinea.
FIFTY men from 22 Construction Regiment in Victoria will arrive in the Territory on January 22 by RAAF Hercules aircraft. They are members of a Citizens Military Forces unit who will be undergoing their annual fortnight’s camp—a long way from home.
The CMF party will work with men of 21 Construction Squadron who are already in the Sepik building a road from Boram to Maprik.
The CMF men will build two of the three brides, both near Boram airstrip, and the squadron will build the third in conjunction with the Ad ministration. This will be 240 ft long, of steel, and cross the Nagum River, 13 miles inland from Wewak.
It will span the Boram-Maprik road.
Army engineers have been working in the Sepik for 18 months and this is the second occasion a CMF unit has been flown from Australia.