Polynesian Club’s First Meeting
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THE fact was related by Sister Milne Hovey, the speaker at the inaugural meeting of the Polynesian Club of Sydney in March, that she was informed when in U.S.A. recently by an eminent professor of Berkeley University, it had been definitely proved that one or more Polynesia mi gratory canoes had, in ages remote, landed on the Californian coast.
Miss Hovey, who had listened to many camp-fire lectures on the American In dians, was interested to find many points of similarity with the Polynesian peoples.
The subject of her address was “A Day in Rarotonga.”
Mr. Leonard Moran presided over a large attendance, which included representatives from different N.Z. tribes, the Cook Islands.
Rotuma, Fiji, New Caledonia, and Samoa.
An attractive programme of native danc ing and singing was provided.
The Rangatira, Mrs. Waikainga Tipene (who wore over her evening gown a hand some Maori feather mat), proposed a vote
of thanks to the speaker.-
E.R.