Much Rumbling
p. 56 · Read in the full issue
But No Fire
WHEN the Returned Soldiers of Rabaul, New Guinea, called their annual meeting recently, there was much talk of “doings”—wnich were variously estimated to extend from “letting off steam” to “blood-letting”. So there was a record attendance of over 40. It was expected that officialdom was in for hot criticism.
But, if anything happened, the public is in the dark. A distant observer, like the “PIM”, is intrigued by this curiously inadequate report in the “Rabaul Times' “The general business of the meeting opened with a motion of censure, and after some discussion was put to the meeting and lost by 41 votes to 2.
“Other matters which were discussed were the various aspects of a defence policy and the advisability of making certain recommendations.”
What were the “censure” and the “cer tain about, anyway?