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LAURIE Smith — past president for the Palm Beach Rotary Club and driver of the project to install a reproduction 1917 howitzer gun at Point Peron — was finally able to phone metal worker Adrian Watt recently and tell him to start work.

The just-commissioned replica gun will be an as-close-as-possible match to the original WWII guns that were placed at Point Peron.

Earlier this year the City of Rockingham Council awarded a $10,000 community grant to the club for the project, which was recently matched by $10,000 from the Point Peron Rehabilitation Committee.

The separtment, of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions and Planning, Lands and Heritage are also supporting the project.

Point Peron Rehabilitation Committee chairman Phil Edman said: “This site will be to remember more than 3000 Australians who lost their lives on Australian soil and in its waters during one of the world’s saddest and ugliest conflicts.”

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