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SEA WATER MADE FRESH U.S. FORCES IN TOBRIANDS (Special Australian Correspond'ill.) (10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 1!). The American forces engaged on the construction of an airfield on Kiriwina Island, the largest of the Trobriand group, will find little difficulty in draining the runways and dispersal areas, i An Australian war correspondent there says that the water quickly percolates through the coral which forms the island. Even after a downpour of several inches, the surface soil is soon dry. Fresh drinking water may be found almost anywhere on Kiriwina merely by sinking a well about 20ft. fleep. Once '.ln cater level is. found, the well is kept fil'ed by the rise, and fall of the tj,d.\ The lime composition of the coral filters flic sea water so that it requires no chemical treatment to make it (it for drinking.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21150, 19 July 1943, Page 4
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