Territorian Appointed To
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War Damage Commission
GOOD news comes to New Guinea property-owners in the form of Territorian H. L. (Les) Clark’s appointment to the War Damage Com mission. He has been seconded from the Army for this purpose and will act as an expert on the costs and construction of New Guinea buildings.
Before the Jap war he was an execu tive officer of the well-known New Guinea building firm of Bay Loo Com pany (his brother “Nobby” was managing director) and in this capacity he travelled extensively throughout the Territory wherever his firm had a building under construction.
Such fine buildings as the New Guinea Club and the Masonic Temple in Rabaul were designed and erected by the Bay Loo firm, and the experience Mr.
Clark gained in the Territory is now available to the War Damage Commis sion.
As a corporal in the NGVR he had a miraculous escape after the Japanese occupation of Rabaul—an escape which, in the light of his present appointment, Territory property-owners may well count fortunate.
Mr. R. C. Macpherson, who left Fiji in November, after 11 years on the literary staff of the “Fiji Times and Herald,” to take up an appointment on the staff of the “Daily Mercury,” Mackay, Queens land, arrived in Mackay early in March.
Mrs. Macpherson, with her two sons and infant daughter, is remaining in Sydney for a time.