Polynesian Club
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THE Polynesian Club held a successful gathering on May 2 at the club room,
250 a George Street, Sydney. Poly
nesian dancing was the feature of the evening, the “Siva faa Samoa” being gracefully danced by Mrs. Charlotte Corn pain, of Tailevu, and Miss Peggy Aspin all, of Penang, Fiji. Under the direction of Mrs. Wiki Byron, of Rotorua, the Maori ladies of the club gave an exhi bition of “Poi Poneke”, “TPoi poto ma roa” and the ever-popular “Poi waka”, the Maori canoe poi.
The president (Mr. Leonard Moran) displayed a “Tabua”. the gift of Miss Margaret Whitcombe, of Levuka, and lec tured briefly on the significance of the whale’s tooth in old Fiji and its relative importance to-day.
Among the Islands people present were: Mrs. Lembke (Taisi) and Miss Christina Hellescoe, of Apia. Samoa; Mr. “Bill”
Goodman, formerly of Suva, who enter tained Mr. George Griffin, a new arrival from Fiji; Miss Everett, a descendant of Adams of the “Bounty”; Mrs. Lamacraft, of Nukualofa; Mrs. E. Gosnell, a chiefly • lady of Rotuma, Fiji, with three members of her family. The president and the club secretary. <Miss Frances Tie) entertained Madame Andriesse. formerly of Java. Lieutenants Purvis and Milner. R.A.N., Dr. Selby, and Mrs. Katerina Nehua Darley.