MERCHANT SHIPPING
FEDERAL BUILDING PROGRAMME (Rec. 7 p.m.) MELBOURNE, July 10. A revised merchant shipbuilding programme (involving an expenditure of an additional £4,000,000, has been approved by the Australian War Cabinet. The present programme provides for an expenditure of £12,000,000. The construction of ships for the Commonwealth coastal trade is provided for under the new plan.
A map of the area where New Zealanders have been buried in the desert has been sent by Driver Max. Metzge; to his parents, Mr and Mrs N. Metzger, of Winton, Southland. . The'map was used by Driver Metzger during his work in the desert, and it covers , the area where the New Zealanders were most hotly attacked, the eastern part of Cyrenaica. As a result of inquiries made from the War Graves organisation, he learned that many of our men who had been hastily buried in shallow graves were reinterred in special cemeteries. One is at Sidi Rezegh, which is about 55 miles west of Bardia and about 18 miles south-east of Tobruk. "... ,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25275, 12 July 1943, Page 4
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