Is Prospering

Islands Correspondence Club Is Prospering

Collectors— and they are legion who gather up stamps, postcards, newspapers, coins, and curios—sat up and took notice in 1933 when Mr. Albert P. Ward, of Natuvu, Fiji, launched the South Sea Islands Correspondence Club to assist the interests of pen-friends and collectors.

The idea was an excellent one. Almost every man (and many women) in out-of the-way places in the Pacific Islands cherishes a hobby to while away monot onous hours. Now collectors have a fetish —they love nothing more dearly than to chat at length about their knick knacks. But meeting another collector in the isolated islands of the South Seas with whom to swap gossip was not an

easy matter. Then why not write, thought Mr. Ward; and with that idea was born the S.S.I.C. Club.

In three,years the Club has grown im mensely, and now has more than 500 members in over 80 different countries, including every group in the South Seas.

From headquarters in Fiji, 1,000 copies of the Club’s magazine “Island Life” are despatched each quarter all over the globe.

Membership of the South Sea Islands Correspondence Club is 4/- per annum (including “Island Life”), and a copy of the prospectus will be sent on applica tion to the secretary, Miss Dorothy O.

Ward, Natuvu, Suva, Fiji.

Mr. I. Hoggard, who for six years was a government official in Western Samoa, is now attached to the New Guinea Police Force at Rabaul.