Port Moresby's £30,000
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War Memorial
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Finschhafen, Nov. 16.
rE Australian Government has voted £160,000 for war memorials, and it is certain that one costing about £30,000 will be erected at Port Moresby.
Just what form this memorial will take is not yet known, but the views of repre sentative organisations throughout Papua- New Guinea are being sought.
In selecting Port Moresby as a site for a memorial, the Battlefields Memorials Committee had in view the fact that it was only a few miles from Port Moresby that one section of the Japanese advance on Australia was successfully checked.
A suggestion has been put forward that the memorial should be a permanent structure on Paga Hill, visible from land, sea and air, with an “Eternal Flame” light.
Others prefer hospitals to a structure having no utilitarian purpose.