It's Got a Plaque at Last

e Marquis de Rays’ mill-stone has got a plaque at last. ought out by the ill-fated colonists to the Marquis’ settle t at Port Breton, New Ireland, in 1880, to grind the corn .never & rew - it was salvaged and taken to Rabaul in the Thirties and erected outside the Works Department build survived the war, although the original plaque was lost Australian soldiers who relieved Rabaul in 1945 took it e some Japanese memorial (it had Japanese writing on it hat stage). It was re-erected and a new plaque ordered it but this somehow managed to get itself lost in the rinths of Canberra or Port Moresby. Now it- has its In tion which, brief though it is, may encourage visitors (or lents) to do a little research into early New Guinea history. —Photo Gordon Bladen.