Tribute To Late Dr. Vernon

FROM Mr. W. F. Mackenzie, now a re sident of Melbourne; “I was sorry to hear of the death of that very gallant gentleman, Dr. Ver non. I knew him well when he was stationed at Thursday Island. Associa tion with him and my mother’s family went back to his boyhood days. Men of the Light Horse who served in Palestine, we who were in and around Thursday Island, and our boys of the Kokoda Trail, will all join to salute his memory.”

The death has occurred at the age of 46, of M. Habot, one of the leading in dependent traders in Noumea. In 1940, he was a prominent de Gaullist.