Pacific Islands Club

ABOUT 150 persons attended the June meeting of the Pacific Islands Club at the Hotel Carlton, Sydney, to hear Count von Luckner, the famous German war-time raider, tell of his exploits in the South Seas. They were not dis appointed: the Count proved himself a first-class lecturer, a shrewd showman, and a harpist on heart-strings. His very entertaining, if slightly over-coloured, story was enthusiastically received.

Mrs. Alice Allen Innes, a member of the Council, who is well-known in Papua and New Guinea, spoke on “Some Pioneer Women of the Louisiades”. The early trials and struggles of such cour ageous women of Eastern Papua as Mesdames Clunn, Inman, Young, Car low, Bunting, Tooth, Mahony, Andrews, Ede, Osborne, and Bernier were retold in a very interesting and entertaining way. The address will be published in a later issue.

In addition to a programme of Maori songs by Miss Julie Weri, two short travel films were screened. They were the Orient Co.’s “Pacific Pleasure—A Cruise to Papua”, and Burns, Philp and Co.’s “Cruising in the Solomons”.