Pacific Is. Society
pp. 19-20 · Read in the full issue
MR. Alfred E. Stephen was re-elected president for a second term at the annual meeting of the Pacific Islands Society held in Sydney on April 30, and Mrs. Alfred Page (Lefagoalii) chieftainess for the fourth year in suc cession. Mrs. I. H. Meredith (formerly of the Solomon Islands) is again deputy chieftainess, Miss Ella Small was re appointed treasurer, and Mr. Eric Rams den will again be secretary. Other mem bers of the Council are: Major H. S.
Robinson, Mr. F. D. McCarthy, Mr. Len Freeman, Mr. F. W. Hennings, Mr. J. T.
Bensted, and Mr. H. C. Monckton. The Society has a membership of 175, many of whom are resident in the Pacific.
Reference was made to the loss by death during the year of Captain F. Midden way, Mr. R. W. G. Gosset, Mrs. Ada S.
Rae and Mr. John Shea.
Mr. W. H. Robinson, of the Customs Department, Samarai, Papua, arrived in Australia recently to join the RAAF.
Lieutenant S. H. Elliott, of the Fiji Defence Force, married Miss Pauline Diffey, only daughter of Captain and Mrs. A. H. Diffey, of Suva, on April 5.
Rev. A. Hardie performed the ceremony at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Suva, and the reception afterwards was held at the Grand Pacific Hotel.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Leslie, of Bulolo, New Guinea, have been spending leave in Australia.
M. Andre Brenac, leader of the Free French Movement in Australia, has been elected a member of the Pacific Islands Society in Sydney.
Mr. H. Spiller, well-known merchant and recruiter on the North-east Coast of Papua, has returned to Port Moresby after a holiday in Australia.