SERVICE ROMANCE
HONEYMOON IN NEW GUINEA Sydney, April 7. Eleven of the 78 privates attached to an Australian Women’s Army Service unit have become engaged during their seven months’ service in New Guinea, providing their unit with the highest engagement rate of any in New Guinea. There are rumours of several more engagements to be added to the unit’s record. Six of the girls became engaged to men who were patients in the Australian General Hospital to which their unit is attached, and all ef them became engaged to Australian Army men in spite of strong American opposition in the area. Only one was married in New Guinea. Of the others one was married in Cairns on her way south on leave, six are to marry immediately they reach their home States on leave, and the remaining three have to wait for their weddings until their fiances return from New Guinea on leave. It was a New South Wales girl Private Joan McMillan, who married in New Guinea a pay sergeant of a near-by unit, and after their marriage they had a week’s honeymoon at New Guinea’s Honeymoon Hut. This is a hut on a rubber plantation at Koitaki, about 30 miles from Port Moresby, which has now been lent to five service brides and bridegrooms by the plantation owner and his wife.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 15 April 1944, Page 3
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223SERVICE ROMANCE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 15 April 1944, Page 3
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