Australia’S New Guinea
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Army Badly Housed
AS part of her task in preparing the Southwest Pacific region
against aggression, Australia is
rapidly creating in New Guinea a military organisation, in which specially selected natives are being intensively trained. As was demon strated in World War 11, these people can be very useful in certain classes of warfare.
A plea was made in Canberra in September that better accommoda-, tion be provided in Papua-New Guinea for the many officers and non - commissioned officers now stationed there; some of the housing was described as shockingly bad.
Army Minister Francis agreed that the provision of suitable housing for Army personnel was “vital and im portant,” and said he would go per sonally to New Guinea and ex amine the situation.
Mons. B. C. d’Hauteserre, Director of the Meteorological Department of French Oceania, was on holiday in New Zealand in September.