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Pacific Islands Monthly, 16 April 1940Vol. X, No. 9

A Memory of De Rays '

p. 74 · Read in the full issue

Expedition

mHE mill-stone, which was salved from J_ the site of the old Marquis de Rays’ encampment on the New Ireland coast, and which originally was placed in front of the offices of the Public Works Department in Mango Avenue, Rabaul, has been set up in a more con spicuous manner, and bears a tablet with the inscription:— “This mill-stone was landed at Port Breton, New Ireland, by colonists brought out by the Marquis de Rays’ expedition in the year 1880. Salvaged and brought to Rabaul in 1936.”