Meeting Of New Guinea

Branch Of Rssaila

THE annual general meeting of the New Guinea Branch of the Re turned Sailors, Soldiers and Air men’s Imperial League of Australia, will be held at the rooms of the Combined Services Sub-branch, Barrack Street, Sydney, at 8 p.m. on Thursday, January 20, 1944.

The committee of the branch looks forward to a large attendance of mem bers. Returned soldiers from Papua are especially invited to be present.

A well-deserved tribute by an Austra lian writer: “Splendid service has been rendered by Mr. R. D. Blandy, OBE, British Resident Commissioner in the New Hebrides, and Mr, Ballard, Austra lian commercial representative in New Caledonia. The same goes for ‘Willie’

Johnson (British Consul in New Cale donia). Some day, when it is possible to tell the full story of what happened in that part of the Pacific between 1940 and 1943, two or three powerful Govern ments may realise the debt they are under to those three good men.”