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Pacific Islands Monthly, 24 January 1938Vol. VIII, No. 6

Pacific Islands Club

p. 16 · Read in the full issue

'T'HE next social gathering of the Pacific A Islands Club will be held at 8 p.m. on February 2 at the Hotel Carlton.

Sydney. The guests of honour will be Miss Beatrice Grimshaw, the well-known Islands novelist, and Hon. George H.

Murray, M.L.C.. Director of Agriculture in New Guinea.

Miss Grimshaw, whose books are known to all interested in Pacific adven ture, was for many years a resident of Papua, and will speak of her experiences when in search of material in the South Seas. Mr. Murray has a highly specialised knowledge of agriculture in the tropics, and will lecture on “Agriculture, Native and European, in the Mandated Ter ritory.”