Polynesian Club

THE Polynesian Club of Sydney’s meetings have been the scene of many re-unions, when members greet friends from Polynesia and other overseas places. Among recent interest ing visitors were: Mr. Robert Young, a young Pitcairn Islander; two charming Islands visitors, Miss Ana LaurenSPn of Apia, Samoa, who is closely related to the Royal Chief Tamasese, as well as to the High Chief Faumuina, of Samoa, and Miss Matarii Nicholas, from Avarua, Rarotonga, who is staying at Wahroonga with her aunt, Mrs. Waugh, formerly of Avarua; M. Marc Grand (with Madame and Miss Grand) of Vila, New Hebrides, who is a son of M. Henri Grand, a well-known resident of Tahiti; Mr.

Rangaihi Te Aka, a young Maori, of Taranaki, who responded to his welcome with a “karanga” in the old Maori style, waving branches of green fern; Dr. A.

Earl, recently of Trinidad, and now at Nauru; Mr. George Farwell, whose play on a Tahitian subject, “Peacocks in Paradise”, is now running at a Sydney Little Theatre, Polynesian members have re sponded well to the call to arms, and ar > T 5L un l f( ?r m V ie ? n N °kb. s of (who is in the R.A.A.F.), Victor Tipene and Wiremu Takarangi N.Z. Maori, who are in camp, Hemi Hawkins, another Maori, is already in England. Others are in Palestine.

Nearly 1,300 cases of fruit juice were included in a large shipment of Cook Islands produce which arrived in Auck land, N.Z. recently. In the Cook Islands there has been developed a growing in dustry in which the juice is extracted from exceptionally large oranges, which had little commercial value.