TREASURY ISLANDS
RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF BRITISH PROTECTION. WELCOMED BY NATIVES. (Official War Correspondent, N.Z.E.F.) TREASURY ISLANDS. The Union Jack, symbol of British protection and sovereignty, again flies over the Treasury Islands, occupied by the Japanese for the last 18 months. When the New Zealanders had made good their foothold on Mono, main island of the group, a Union Jack was hoisted by a representative of the native inhabitants in the presence of Major D. C. C. Trench, who had landed with the fighting troops to represent the Resident Commissioner of the British Solomons Islands Protectorate.
Native appreciation of the return of the British colonial administration which had served them well since 1900, when the Treasury Islands formed part of a group handed to Britain by Germany in return for British withdrawal from Western Samoa, has been shown by the warmness of their reception of the New Zealanders and their co-operation in the fight against the Japanese.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1943, Page 4
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155TREASURY ISLANDS Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1943, Page 4
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