Munda Airfield—Correction

of Inaccuracies

THERE were gross inaccuracies in an article published in the April issue of the “PIM,” in which it was stated that Rev. J. R. Metcalfe, a missionary who recently arrived in Australia, had seen the Japs arrive at Munda (in New Georgia, Solomon Islands) and establish their air base there.

Mr. Metcalfe did not actually see the Japs arrive and construct the airfield, but he was in the near vicinity at the time, and saw and heard much of exceptional interest.

The plantation adjoining Munda, on Roviana Lagoon, is not the property of Mr. Geoffrey Cliff, but of Mr. Leslie Gill.

The writer of the article, working from memory, mixed up the names of two well-known Solomon Islands planters.