HOW NEW ZEALAND'S PACIFIC DIVISION MAINTAINED COMMUNICATIONS OVER THOUSANDS OF MILES OF OCEAN DURING ITS BIG CAMPAIGN is shown in these pictures from the battle areas. At top left linesmen are at work on a jungle telegraph pole, with about fifty circuits which terminate in ITie portable switchboard shown, with operator, at top right. At lower left a two-man radio station being operated in the forward area during the Vella Lavella offensive. The remaining picture shows a well-equipped radio terminal carved out of solid coral rock to a depth of about ten feet on Green Island. Coconut logs formed the entrance and also formed the roof coVer, over which was a depth of several feet of broken coral.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 65, 17 March 1945, Page 8

HOW NEW ZEALAND'S PACIFIC DIVISION MAINTAINED COMMUNICATIONS OVER THOUSANDS OF MILES OF OCEAN DURING ITS BIG CAMPAIGN is shown in these pictures from the battle areas. At top left linesmen are at work on a jungle telegraph pole, with about fifty circuits which terminate in ITie portable switchboard shown, with operator, at top right. At lower left a two-man radio station being operated in the forward area during the Vella Lavella offensive. The remaining picture shows a well-equipped radio terminal carved out of solid coral rock to a depth of about ten feet on Green Island. Coconut logs formed the entrance and also formed the roof coVer, over which was a depth of several feet of broken coral.