Radio Men's Part in the Pacific War

Pacific War

“/ r VUR permanent stations in New V/ Guinea continued to serve the public until that country was in vaded by the Japanese, and all the staff but one managed successfully to make their escape under difficult and exciting conditions. The one exception was Mr.

Holland, the QIC, who remained too late to leave, and I am sorry to say, that up to now we have received no news of his whereabouts,” said the managing director of Amalgamated Wireless, in his recent annual report.

“The service at Port Moresby, in Papua, continued throughout the war although, due to enemy action, it was necessary to move the station to another site, and al together the station survived more than 100 enemy air attacks. Commercial com munication was suspended and the station operated for the Army and, later, the Navy, and still later, when the Japanese were pressed back, it became a centre for press transmission to Australia and the world.

“As the war moved north, so did our staff first to Hollandia and then to Leyte, from where many millions of words were sent to Australia. Our officers worked under great difficulties, with short staff, and, in many cases, with im

provised apparatus.

“The company’s coastal station at Darwin, in common with other stations, rendered valuable assistance to the Forces, and became the direct target of Japanese bombing attacks. Eventually the building and some equipment were damaged, but the station continued to carry on under conditions reflecting the highest credit on the staff.”

Miss Betty Nicholson, daughter of Mrs.

W. T. A. Nicholson, of Suva, Fiji, was married to Cantain K. W. MacFarlane, of the Fiji Military Forces, in Suva, on October 3.