Year Left to Find
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‘WARDS of 35 million rounds of light ammunition has been destroyed in the past five years m Army Bomb Disposal Unit :ing in Papua-New Guinea. ve million rounds of heavy am ition and 1,700 tons of bombs been destroyed also, le largest concentrations of un oded ammunition were found in
the Gazelle Peninsula, at Lae and in the Sepik District. Smaller dumps have been located in many parts of the Territory, in some cases up to 30 miles away from wartime Jap anese bases. * One of the surprise finds since the war was the location of a stack of 725-lb Spigot Japanese mortar bombs on Vulcan Island in the Rabaul area.
The Director of Civil Affairs, Mr S. Lonergan, said to-day that army Authorities in Port Moresby were again seeking information as to the whereabouts of remaining unex ploded ammunition so that disposal work in the Territory could be finished this year. It’s expected that the Army Unit will be withdrawn by December,