That Old Mill Stone!
p. 17 · Read in the full issue
This photograph was very kindly sent to us by Mr. A. Raschke, of Wunderlich, Ltd., Sydney.
It shows the Public Works Department building, as it was in pre-war Rabaul, and mounted out side of it, the Marquis de Ray’s mill-stone. An article about this old stone appeared in February issue of “PIM,” and told how it survived the blitz on Rabaul between 1942 and 1945. It was suggested there that the cld stone was originally mounted on the slant—as this picture proves
that it was—and that it had no inscription to show what it was. Mr. Raschke took this photo graph when he visited Rabaul in 1939, and he thinks that his firm subsequently supplied an enamelled bronze name-plate for affixing to the stone. He thinks, also, that Mr. W. L. McGowan, now Assistant Works Director, Department of Public Works, Port Moresby, then an architect in the Rabaul PWD, w?.s primarily responsible for having the stone set in place.