Attention, Papuan
p. 19 · Read in the full issue
Historians!
Letter to the Editor DURING the Buna battle (northeast Papua), in Dec.-Jan, 1942-43, there was some heavy mining machinery lying alongside the Buna-Soputa track, about a mile from Soputa. It had been made by a Victorian firm in about 1899; but how it was landed, and then trans ported some miles inland, without present-day equipment, caused much dis cussion. I wonder if any reader can sup ply the answer? Also, where was it going?
And a few more queries: Origin and meaning of the names Buna, Sanananda and Endaiadere? Who was the pre sumed Frenchman?
I am etc.,
K. F. Tye.
Imperial Service Club, Sydney.
Mr. John Gildart, who formerly was with the British-New Guinea Trading Company in Papua, is now manager of an engineering firm in Brisbane. His wife, Mrs. Dorothy Gildart, has been seriously ill and was recuperating in Melbourne at the end of February.
In early February, Mr. Walter W. Sav age, who was a well known Customs Of ficer in Fiji between 1908 and 1923, died in Sydney. He is survived by his widow.