Valuable Wartime

Machines

Taken To Aust. From Islands

MORE than 3,000 tons of American wartime earth-moving equipment from six islands of the Marshall Group arrived in Sydney by converted tank-landing ships early in November.

The equipment was bought from the United States Government by a private firm, and some will be used in the Snowy River project. More than 100,000 tons of usable equipment was left behind in the islands by the American forces.

Other firms have sent parties into Pacific battlefields, and it was reported in Sydney that one group is using light planes in an attempt to find huge dumps in New Guinea.