The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 18 September 1937Vol. VIII, No. 2

Pattern Service

p. 66 · Read in the full issue

VA/E have arranged with a well-known Sydney ’ * firm of pattern-cutters to publish each month a diagram of a seasonable frock, patterns of which may be obtained by our readers direct from this office, post free, on payment of the sum stated under the diagram. Address your letter to “Pat tern,” Pacific Islands Monthly, Box 3408 R, Sydney, and enclose a note giving the number of the pattern wanted and bust size, and enclose also the price of the pattern in postal note or stamps. The pattern will be sent by return maU.

4216—A smart sports spectator frock with front fastening extending below the waist. The skirt is shaped, terminating in a pleat. Blouse is gathered where it joins the yoke; this is cut in a deep V, in front, and has a roll collar. The cool sleeves feature an inverted pleat; these are partly stitched down. Material (for 36in, bust) : 31yds. 36ins. wide. Bust sizes 32 to 40 inches.

Miss Lucy Hawkes, who has been Matron at the Norfolk Island Hospital for five years, arrived in Sydney by the August Morinda. After a short holiday in New Zealand, she will proceed to Niue Island, Central Pacific, to take charge of the hospital there.

NuTse Callaghan, who has been in the employ of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. in Fiji for over 11 years, left the Colony by the August Niagara, owing to continued ill-health.

Miss M. Battersby, of Blacktown, New South Wales, departed for New Britain, where she will reinforce the Methodist Mission’s nursing staff, by the Macdhui from Sydney on August 28.

Frock, 4216—1s. 1d.