Australian Soldiers Join
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ATTRACTED by tax-free salaries and free quarters, many Australian sol diers are taking their discharge in Rabaul and are ioining the Civil Admini stration as clerks, drivers, radio techni cians and tradesmen.
Most salaries are around £4OO per an num and men have been promised that their wives and families will be sent to join them as soon as possible.
A number of Army nurses are also re ported to be staving on in Rabaul and will staff the civilian hospital when it is established.
Only a “caretaker force” of about 2,000 troops now remains in Rabaul.