NG Border Airstrips Extended
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From a Port Moresby Correspondent Two separate Administration announcements give details of plan to establish a new patrol post, with an airstrip, in the Star Mountains and to lengthen two other airstrips at Rouku and Kiunga. All thre places are along P-NG’s border with West New Guinea.
THE Kiunga and Rouku airstrips are each to be lengthened to one mile, to DC3 standard. The Kiunga strip was built in 1961 to take aircraft up to Otter size. The Rouku airstrip was built two years ago to take air craft up to Piaggio. Work on their ex tensions is going ahead now.
Earthmoving equipment was tal up the Morehead River to Rou which is about 40 miles in from coast.
Other equipment was to be tal about 500 miles up the Fly river Kiunga. Both Kiunga and Rouku Administration posts.
The Star Mountains post is be: built at Nomad, on the up] reaches of the Strickland Riv farther away from the border th either Kiunga or Rouku. Nomad at present being reached overla from Kiunga, which involves at le eight days walking and canoeing. 1 airstrip will do away with this nee« There are at present 68 patrol po in P-NG, together with 15 Disti headquarters and 55 sub-district hes quarters. There are six posts ale the border area.