Sydney Club Facilities For Members

Members of The Pacific Islands Association.

AN arrangement has been practically completed under which Sydney club facilities will be made available to any member of the Pacific Islands As sociation who may visit Sydney.

Negotiations between the Pacific Is lands Association executive and the Council of the Millions Club have been proceeding for some time. An agree ment has been practically reached under which, on condition that the Pacific Islands Association makes an annual payment to the Millions Club, and Sydney members of the Association become full members of the Millions Club, the Millions Club will grant hon orary membership and full club facili ties to any non-Sydney member of the Pacific Islands Association, who may visit Sydney, during the full period of his visit, without any additional charge.

The Millions Club will also provide a room within the new Millions Club building, which will be specially set aside to be the office and headquarters of the Pacific Islands Association.

Members of the Association will find this a very convenient arrangement. As soon as they arrive in Sydney and re port at the office of the Association, they will be handed the necessary in troduction, entitling them to the use of the Millions Club rooms and privileges.

The Millions Club now occupies a new and excellently planned building ex tending over several floors, and it in cludes dining rooms, lounges, writing rooms, billiard rooms, dressing and bathrooms, licensed bar, etc.

Members of the Association will find the Millions Club—which is centrally situated at the corner of Pitt and Rowe Streets, directly opposite the G.P.O. — a very convenient place to which they may have their letters addressed, ar range interviews, attend to correspond ence, etc. The luncheon and dinner menus at this Club are kept up to a high standard.

It may be necessary to slightly in crease the present subscription of the Pacific Islands Association (now £1/1/for Sydney members and 10/6 for others) in order to cover the cost of these additional privileges. Members are to be circularised on the matter immediately.

It is intended, now that the question of accommodation and office facilities appears to have been settled, to deal immediately with the general purposes and organisation of the Association — more particularly in the direction of providing machinery so that the views of members can be obtained in such a way as to allow the Association to speak with a united voice on various matters affecting the common interests of Pacific Islands residents.

The following have been elected members of the Association: —W. F.

Robertson and A. R. Evans (both of New Hebrides), F. Headon (Papua), H.

Kuper, F. M. Campbell and A. D. C.

Stephens (all of British Solomon Is lands).

All stations of the New Hebrides Presbyterian Mission reported to Synod, which met at Santo recently, that native contributions had decreased. As a result, teachers’ salaries wall, in some cases, have to be reduced.