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A Big Bang!
HONIARA, March 21.
British solomon islands, like New Guinea, has its full share of bomb dumps, dud shells, etc., left over from the war. There is a large am munition dump a few miles from Honiara, and a dump of several hundred large aerial bombs was discovered last year on the property of a planter in the Western Solomons, near a native village.
What to do with these and other known dump areas has been an awkward orob lem and was not solved without the as sistance of experts. Several fatal acci dents have occurred among natives—one only a few months ago—and grass fires have been a source of anxiety in any pro longed dry spell.
The Australian Government now pro poses to send a bomb disposal team to the Solomons some time in May, and the team’s welcome visit should remove a very real source of potential danger.