Moresby

guide: Toast to HiCom wives

Port Moresby: A Guide to the Capital. By a group of wives of officers of the Australian High Commission in Papua New Guinea headed by Dawn Nut ter. Published 1981. 92 pp. K 2.

Port Moresby: A Guide to the Capital is the product of the voluntary work of a number of wives of officers of the Austra lian High Commission in Papua New Guinea.

An expanded version of an earlier publication, A Guide to Port Moresby, which was pro duced by a similar group in 1977, the new publication is a real success story.

The first edition was quickly sold out after it was launched last September, and a revised edition in a run of 4000 copies appeared in the early months of this year.

The striking cover photo graph on the guide shows houses at Hanuabada village against a background of high rise buildings in the downtown area Dawn Nutter, wife of the Australian High Commissioner to PNG Gerry Nutter who recently completed his term, headed the working group.

She said in a press statement at the time of the launching of the second edition that it was expected to sell quickly as people from other parts of PNG and overseas arrived in the capital to take up new appoint ments.

Mrs Nutter said the project had been undertaken initially to provide a wide range of infor mation on goods, services and recreational, cultural and shop ping facilities available in Port Moresby.

Proceeds from sales would be distributed among charitable and service organisations which are serving the community.

Mrs Nutter said that while most of the work of preparing the guide had been done by the High Commission wives, they had been assisted and advised by a number of Papua New Guineans with an intimate knowledge of the capital.

She expressed thanks to a number of businesses, es pecially the PNG Banking Cor poration, for support which enabled her group to offset costs of the project.