GONOPHONE NEWS.

Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 8, 12 February 1944, Page 4

GONOPHONE NEWS.

i . TOYS from the Service has been sporadic this week owing to & break in the guest which left no excuse to linger* Communiques early in the wook showed canfid * cnee in the guest for furlough, It wan readily accepted that all Bas© M nits were to hove a fortnight in M.Z..and that they were to sign the Kiwi Charter in which they pro mi sod to behave as the gentlemen they wore ; they wore to turn a donf car to the supplications of the Farmers Union, the prayers of the Ifen *•* power wommittoo and divers other bodice that beset the path of * the Kiwi pilgrim# The Charter# * it was reported was signed with alacrity * some even holding up the right hand ( that is probably on exaggeration), A later cornua#lews Tuesday night was to the effedt tat personnel of Base Units wore to’have had their leave completed by June 44. There were unbelievers, the scoffers & cynics whoso mournful cry was that they * know ta army, and that they would believe the furlough racket when they wore on ths boat ! Obviously knowalls * Fortunately, ths common * ecww say ” thieving ” * Kiwi has a high opinion of the army of which be is a conspicuous example, so tat the scoff ar is go x® thing of on oddity,:n M Wdnosdsy news was basically the same J except that K.Z. troops were to go to Aussie for th© furlough( owing to compile cations arising out of the Kiwi v Charter, it is thought)* After Charter the leave period we then Join up with Australian troops under McArthur* r 'Tommy* trends are to replace the Kiwis on Uoaal. ha tost now is that nil farmers in Works can expect to bo sent ho&Q for the ploughing cans on, So bad is the manpower problem in U.Z, that the Farmerc Union is un* able to moot owing president mid o omit too being cvcrooac®

• THIO above diagrammatic illustration of an Atoll gives some .idea of what the term describes. MARSHAL - group lias 30 Atolls •covering I £o.ooo square Milos sf water. THEY « constitute a double chain. The Ro dak, or Sunrise group, on tho cast. The Ha Ilk, Sunset . Group, on the west* They arc low coral formations studdedMth islofta, dncloning calm lagoons* whore volcanic a ones may once have Jutted* m.TAiLWT « world’s largest atoll* a# eighty mile string of islets* is tho hub of Marshall fortificat* ions 4 * ’ WoiJB - 31 miles long* a cluster of 60 weeded islands,. 1&L0EM? — 32 miles long, has naval anchorage, and airfield* JAI..UXT » ,33 miles long, administr.** wfitlve ooniro. JALUIT, .33 miles long, a no st of TOO islets* strongly garrisoned*