Last Of War's White Elephants
pp. 31-32 · Read in the full issue
Mrs. A. Gazzard, who returned to New Guinea on 'the January “Montoro” lost all her household goods and luggage in a fire which damaged the premises of Barron & Martin Pty., Ltd., Furniture Stores near Sydney, on New Years Eve.
She had only a week before the ship sailed to replace everything she had lost,
Arrivals and departures of planes at Tontouta airfield, New Caledonia, now number six weekly. An increase to 16 is forecast before long. On February 1 a special plane took 31 pas sengers to Australia, They were American delegates to the Melbourne civil aviation conference.
Photograph of the Commonwealth Disposals Commission auction of old Army vehicles in Rabaul at the end of 1946. Buyers—civilian and Service—in the foreground. —Photo by C. H. Meen.
Mr. R. A. Derrick, principal of the Fijian Government Technical School, Suva, and author of several histories and text-books, was on leave in Melbourne, Vic. in January. While in Australia, he is undertaking historical research work for the Fijian government.
The Rev. H. E. Palmer of the Anglican Mission, sailed in December in the “Montoro” for New Guinea. Mr. Palmer has been appointed rector of Port Moresby, but before taking up duty there he ex pects to make a tour of the Diocese of New Guinea.