b'Brass by the barrelA collection of some of the metal drumsWe must have shipped thousands of used to store pieces of equipment fortonnes of brass and copper over the their journey out of Milne Bay, c. 1947. six months or so I was there, said Bert. We used to get 44-gallon drums, bash the heads in, cut the rims out, fill them with the scrap, then shove the edges down with hammers, stack them on a truck, and when the ship came in, drive it onto the pontoon wharf. Loading was no trouble. The local people loved it when the ship came in; they wouldwork like one united thing.22'