Battleground
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Memorial On 20-years , -old Battleground
Rabaul, Sep. 11.
THE foundation stone of a memorial to the first Australians killed in the Great War” (Captain Pockley and Able Seamen Williams, Walker, Moffat, and Street) was today placed in position by the retiring Administrator, General Griffiths—exactly 20 years after the Australian landing at Kabakaul and the march to Bitapaka to capture the German radio station. The battle occurred several miles inland where the ground rises to the station and the memorial is being erected there.
General Griffiths in his address said that the memorial should have been erec ted long ago.
This ceremony represented General Griffiths’ last official duty. He sails for the South tomorrow.
An indication of the continued progress of Rabaul is provided in the fact that a new freezing company, for the supply of fresh food to the town, has been estab lished by Messrs. Greenwood and Laws.
This firm recently has extended its activi ties to the goldfields end of the Territory, and Mr. R. A. Laws is in charge of the branch at Wau.