Pacific Islands Club
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Oceania has been the subject * of two recent lectures at the Pacific Islands Club, Sydney. Mr. Harold Nossiter, round-the-world yachtsman, on September 22, told of his visit to the Marquesas, and, on October 20, Professor G. Henderson, a noted Pacific historian, spoke on the “Establishment of the French Provisional Government in Ta hiti, 1842.” At the latter gathering, a film, “Spanning Space,” was displayed by courtesy of Amalgamated Wireless (A/sia) Ltd., showing the progress of A.W.A.’s Islands services.
The Pacific Islands Club now has over 100 members.
Mr. C. Crane, 0 f the Crane Steel Com pany, Chicago, U.S.A., arrived in Sydney by the Wanganella on October 19 eh route to New Guinea to study an thropology. In Rabaul, he will join Dr.
W. L. Moss and Dr. D. L. Oliver, and the three Americans will carry out investi gations, probably on the N.G. mainland, under the auspices of the Peabody
Museum, Harvard University.