Ceremonies In Rabaul

ARRANGEMENTS are being made by the New Guinea Branch of the RSSAILA (H.Q. in Svdney) with the Commanding Officer. 11th Australian Division who is in charge of operations in Rabaul, to hold commemoration cere monies there on January 23. One ser vice will be held at the spot from which the ill-fated “Montevideo Maru” sailed in June, 1942.

It has been arranged for wreaths to be made in Rabaul; but all ribbons, etc., are being sent bv air from Sydnev bv the New Guinea RSSAILA. It has been that Mai -Gen. K. W. Eather will represent the CVC Rabaul Garrison: Col. H. T. Allen, the Returned Soldiers’

Association: Lieut. A. L. Robinson, the NGVR; Major C. D. Bates, widows of civilians and Mrs. C. I. K Campbell, the Pacific Territories Association.