Native Ex-Servicemen Get
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Their Own Club
More than 4,000 NG natives in March saw a former NG Army commander, Col. “Blue” Allan, open a clubhouse built especially for natives who served in the war.
The clubhouse is at Rabaul, for benefit of members of the Rabaul branch of the Native Ex-Servicemen’s Association. The Rabaul association is one of six formed in the Territory since the Returned Soldiers’ League got the go ahead from Federal Congress in 1957—but it’s the first branch to have a clubhouse.
The Rabaul association, like the others, is an auxiliary of the RSL, but has its own office bearers and conducts its own meetings.
Several more Territory clubhouses are expected to be built in the next 12 months. Territory people have been making donations to building funds, as a way of showing natives who fought that they won’t be forgotten.