Nz Cemetery

At Bourail

THE NZ War Cemetery at Bourail, New Caledonia, will be formally opened on May 8 (V-E Day and also the French national day of Joan of Arc).

The general secretary of the British Imperial War Graves Com mission (Brigadier Brown) has been making the arrangements for the opening in NC.

Big ceremonies are planned by both the NZ and French authorities.

About 30 official and military guj will go from NZ, and it is posa that a TEAL airliner may bring passengers.

The cemetery, on the outskirts Bourail, overlooks the countrys which is surprisingly similar to p: of NZ.

The graves of 287 soldiers are the cemetery, all except two () soldiers), New Zealanders from Solomons or New Guinea campai?

There is a monument to the n who have no known graves, on it have been placed 200 bra tablets bearing the names of Ai and RNZAF men. —Noumea Coi spondent.

Church to

Have Tower

This picturesque grey-stone church at Suva Point will soon have a tower—it will extend six feet above point reached on this photo. Like the church itself, most of work of building the tower has been done by volunteers who have made the task a labour of love, as well as one of strenuous effort.

Brigadier Brown (white hair, centre) at the cemetery at Bourail.

Photo: F. E. Du