Johnston Island
pp. 35-36 · Read in the full issue
To be Another American Naval Base Prom Our Own Correspondent
Honolulu, Nov. 10.
AN advance party of 60 men has left here for Johnston Island, 720 miles south-west of Honolulu, to begin work upon the 1,150,000 dollars warplane, mine craft and submarine base which is to be built under the * current expansion pro gramme of the U.S. navy in the Pacific.
The island, which was placed under sec ret navy jurisdiction in 1934. is two bits of land within a coral reef, 8 miles long.
The lagoon is to be dredged extensively to permit the entrance of navy craft and long-range patrol bombers.
The navy bombers have used the pre sent restricted facilities at Johnston for some years.
When completed, within a year, it will become an important “listening outpost” in America’s far-flung Central Pacific defence scheme.
Canton Island, 1,000 miles further on in the same direction, is to be developed next.
Miss M. Bruce, probationer at the Col onial War Memorial Hospital, Suva, Fiji, resigned in November. Two other mem bers of the hospital staff who also re signed recently were Miss O. M. Flemons and Miss K. V. Douglas.
Mr. Leslie Thomas Hurrell, who since his graduation last year from Hawkes bury Agricultural College, N.S.W., had been gaining experience on one of Burns, Philp and Co.’s plantations in New Guinea, recently joined the N.G. De partment of Agriculture as assistant at the Keravat Demonstration Plantation.
Sir Henry Milne Scott, of Suva, has been appointed a director of the Queens land Insurance Co. Ltd. in Fiji.
Mr. A. St. C. Compton, Superintendent of Works in the Gilbert and Ellice Is lands Colony, died recently at Ocean Island.