Missing Battalion Funds
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From Our Own Correspondent
Honiara, May, 30.
FOUR natives of Kariki village, in the Shortlands, BSI, have been charged with larceny following the discovery of about £1,900 in notes in their posses sion.
The money is believed to have been lost by an Australian battalion stationed in the Shortlands in 1945.
Well-known Central Highlands miner, Mr. Jim Leahy, was granted a divorce from his wife, Mrs. Joan Leahy, in Port Moresby recently on the grounds of desertion. There was one child of the marriage.
Mr. B. Allerton, of Burns Philp and Co., Ltd., 7 Bridge Street, Sydney, has avail able back numbers of the Pacific Islands Monthly for the period 1939-1942. Readers who were away during the war, and others, may be able to fill gaps in their PIM files from these copies. They should apply direct to Mr. Allerton.