Opening of Country Club in Papua
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Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Curtis returned re cently to their home in Tahiti on board the S.S. Stella Polaris, after a year’s sojourn in Europe and the United States.
Mr. W. R. Higgs, of Messrs. W. R.
Carpenter & Co. Ltd., arrived in Sydney from one of his periodical business trips to New Guinea by the Montoro early in April.
Some of the 40 residents of Port Moresby who in March attended the opening night of “Taldora,” a new country ciub six miles from Papua’s capital. One of the territory’s most popular ladies, “Mac” (Mrs. E. McGrath) was hostess at the enjoyable function. The club will be a boon to tired business folk, said Mr. Brian Molloy, well-known Moresby barrister, at the opening, and added that the club proposes to lay out a golf course and possibly install a swimming pool.
Photo: A. and K. Gibson.