"Close To The Answer"
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The Australian Government was now close to solving the problem of adequate low cost housing for New Guinean public servants, the Minis ter for Territories, Mr. C. E. Barnes, said in Port Moresby early in July.
After visiting a number of low cost housing projects around Port Moresby, the Minister said: "I am very en couraged with what I have seen to day".
Asked by newsmen what he had meant several months ago when he had told the Australian Parliament of an impending "breakthrough" in the housing problem for indigenous pub lic servants, Mr. Barnes said he had been referring to the experiments in low cost housing which he had just seen.
However, the Government had fur ther planning to do before it could finally decide on the most suitable type of housing within the economic capacity of New Guinean public ser vants.