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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 August 1950Vol. XXI, No. 1

Headstones For Ng

p. 66 · Read in the full issue

War Graves

AT a cost of £200,000, a Brisbane firm (P. J. Lowther and Son Pty., Ltd.), will supply 15,000 headstones for war graves in Australia and New Guinea.

The contract period in which to sup

ply the headstones is three years. Each stone will be of marble and will cost £lO to produce.

Recently more than 800 headstones were loaded at Pinkenba (Brisbane) for the war cemetery near Port Moresby.

Mrs. Norman White, of Wau, New Guinea and Church Point, Sydney, left for New Guinea on the July Bulolo.