WAR DAMAGE CLAIMS
Papua And New Guinea Properties (Received July 5. 11 pan.) MELBOURNE, July 5. 'More than 3(100 claims, amounting to about, £IO,OTO,OTO. have been received by the Australian War Damage Commission from owners of property in Papua and New Guinea. War-damage claims from the Darwin area were about £500.000. These figures have been announced by ■the chairman of the commission, Mr. A. AV. Coles, who has just returned after three weeks in New Guinea. He inspected gold mining properties at Wau and Bulolo, all of which suffered severely from the application of the scorched earth policy. To put most of the mines back into work-would require at least six’months from the time the necessary machinery became available, he said. Plantations had not been so extensively damaged. The destruction of buildings and secondary jungle growth was more serious. Claims respecting property was all made on T basis of total loss, but settlement will lie at a much lower figure.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 239, 6 July 1944, Page 6
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160WAR DAMAGE CLAIMS Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 239, 6 July 1944, Page 6
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