Pacific Islands
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Association.
THE membership of the Pacific Islands Associations now exceeds 100.
Members have recently admitted from the more distant groups in the Central and Eastern Pacific.
The steady growth of membership and the practical interest being shown makes it possible that the Association in 1933 will begin to carry out the primary purpose of its formation and speak with united voice on Pacific Is lands affairs.
Negotiations between the committee of the Association and the committee of a well-known Sydney Club have been further advanced during the month, but they have not been finalised.
It is expected that, when they are com pleted, membership of the Pacific Is lands Association will automatically carry with it membership of the Syd ney Club referred to —the privileges of which include facilities which will be of great value to members of the Pacific Islands Association when visit ing Sydney.
The following are among the newly elected members of the Association:
C. R. Pinney (Norfolk Island); W.
Grube (New Hebrides), F. L. Jones (Santa Cruz Group), W. S. Wells and Agnes Wells (Papua), C. C. Beckett, H.
L. Downing, M. J. Dwyer, J. L. Leahy and M. J. Leahy (all of New Guinea); C. T. Wirth (Papua), J. R. Clay (Papua).
Mrs. K. D. Bignell, of Fulakora Plan tation, Ysabel, Solomon Islands, accom panied by her young daughter, Mar garet, arrived in Sydney by the Sep tember “Mataram,” and will spend some months in Australia and in Nor folk Island before returning to the Protectorate early in the New Year.