To Fight
pp. 29-30 · Read in the full issue
NG Returned Soldiers To Fight At Canberra Conference
fJTHE claims of returned Servicemen in JL New Guinea to a much larger meas ure of Australian Government sym pathy and practical help than they have had will be brought before the Conference of the Australian Returned Soldiers League by Colonel H. T. Allan, at Can berra on October 28/31.
Colonel Allan has been authorised to represent the Lae Branch at the Confer ence; and he expects authority to repre sent other branches before he goes to Canberra.
The New Guinea returned soldiers will ask for a larger measure of Australian support in rehabilitation especially in relation to the price allowed for copra and for the restoration of the Legislative Council system, in some form, so that Europeans residing in the Australian Territories may have some voice in pub lic affairs.
At the present time, Europeans in Aus tralian Territories get little consideration from the Administration. They pay heavy indirect taxes, are kept short of labour and transport, and are robbed by the Australian Government of £3 or £4 per ton on the price paid for their copra; and all their complaints are either ignored or treated very casually by bureaucrats and politicians..
A tragic accident occurred in Samoa when a truck-driver killed his own child, aged four. Mr. J. Gascoigne, employed by the Gold Star Transport Co., of Apia, was backing his lorry into a garage and was unaware that his child was playing in the back of the truck.
Mr. W. F. Watson who has been Assis tant Commissioner of Inland Revenue in Fiji has been appointed to a similar posi tion in Hongkong.
Miss Joan Voelcker, daughter of the Ad ministrator of Western Samoa, Lieut- Colonel F. W. Voelcker, was married on September 19 to Petty-Officer H. Crockett, RNZN. Lieut-Colonel Voelcker visited New Zealand for the wedding.