Investiture Under
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Difficulties
From a Special Correspondent Madang, November 6.
A SOMEWHAT odd “investiture” was held here recently on the occasion of the Administrator’s visit. Squad ron-Leader McGilvery was presented with the Air Force Cross; and it was intended also to present the DCM to Lieutenant B. G. Hall.
However, due to some oversight (or official bungling) there was no Distin guised Conduct Medal to pin upon his chest; and, in the course of the ceremony.
Lieutenant Hall was temporarily decorated with another man’s medal—the Military
Medal—and appropriate ribbon—which constitute, of course, a lesser decoration than the DCM.
After the ceremony, the MM was handed back and the Administrator’s party then went on to Lae, where the same Military Medal was presented again—this time to its rightful owner.
Six Roman Catholic missionaries from America arrived in Sydney, en route to Rabaul during October. Two of them, the Rev. Fr. A. Gendusa and the Rev.
Fr. A. Stamper are qualified pilots and have brought with them a Commonwealth Trimmer Amphibian plane which they will use in their work in New Britain.