Old Jap Ammunition Still
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Causing Damage
From Our Own Correspondent
Rabaul, June 12.
ALTHOUGH the war has been over four years, casualties in lives and equipment, are still occurring in Rabaul.
Recently when a native was handling old Japanese ammunition one of the cart ridges exploded and caused his death. In early June, at Mr. J. Chipper’s saw mills in Rabaul, one of the main breaking-down saws struck a 50-calibre machine-gun cartridge deeply embedded in a mill log.
This resulted in more than £3OO worth of damage being done to the mill. The loss of production as a result, is causing con cern as sawn timber is still in short supply in Rabaul.
The New Caledonian Medical Associa tion has published a handsome booklet of 125 pages about New Caledonia’s new thermal spa of sulphur water at La Crouen. There are photographs and plans of the intended spa centre, and an ex cellent map. In addition to useful in formation by doctors, surveyors, geologists chemists and other experts, many local people testify to the good the waters have done them.