Pacific

Islands

Monthly

February, 1951

Vol. XXI. No. 7.

stablished 1930.

I Registered at the G.P.0., Sydney, for transmission by post as a newspaper ]

WHEN Mount Lamington, in Northern Papua, erupted on January 21, blast and red-hot facing ash and vapour killed over 4,000 people. The great force of the blast may he Judged by these jeeps found by rescue parties when they first got in to the devastated Government station at Higaturu. Those in the foreground were completely wrecked. One was blown into a shattered tree. The bodies of their owners were found nearby.

Photo by courtesy Courier-Mail.