Corrections called for
The excellent article by Chas Sproul (How Patonga was affected by the war, Peninsula News, May 13) contained one small error that calls for correction.
The ferry sunk by Japanese midget submarines was HMAS Kuttabul (not Cuttabel as given in the article), and the number of sailors killed in the attack was 21 (19 Australian and two British), rather than the 16 quoted in the article.
Incidentally, your readers might have been puzzled by the typographical error in the first paragraph of column two which stated that the Commodore Heights Rd was constructed "from coal from Candle Creek".
Obviously, the writer intended to say that a road was constructed from Coal and Candle Creek to Commodore Heights.
Email, 17 May 2013
Bruce Hyland, Daleys Point