High Cost Of Moving
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Us War Dead
From Our Own Correspondent
Honiara, Jan. 19.
AT the moment, nearly 6,000 American war dead are concentrated at Ku kum, main port for Honiara. They are due to leave within a few days for Oahu, Hawaii and the United States.
A Victory ship arrived here last week carrying 2,400 dead from US cemeteries in Australia, to add to the 3,400 dis interred from Lunga war cemetery, Guadalcanal.
The bodies are all contained in bronze handled, stainless-steel caskets, lined with linen and satin.
A US officer unofficially this week estimated that the cost of re-casketing and removing each body to its destination will run into nearly 1,000 dollars apiece.
The cost of this particular operation, therefore, is in the vicinity of six million dollars.
Prom here, the War Graves’ Registra tion Service personnel, with their work ing gang of 500 Filipinos, will go on to similar operations in Saipan.
Mr. R. R. Mason, formerly a member of the Huntingdonshire War Agricultural Executive Committee, and ex-RAP, has been appointed to the Colonial Service in London and will go to Fiji as an
agricultural officer.