Polynesian Club of Sydney

MEMBERS of the Polynesian Club of Sydney, on September 16, were hosts to Prince Jione Gu, younger son of Queen Salote, of Tonga, the Club’s patroness. He was introduced by Mrs.

Vika Lamacraft, of Nukualofa, relative of the Queen.

Lady members entertained the gather ing with Polynesian dances, including the “ma’ulu’ulu” and “lakalaka”, popular in Tonga. Miss Ivy Buffett, of Norfolk Is land, performed the “tauoluga”, and chieftainess Waikainga Tipene danced the “hula ku’i Hawaii”. Maori members presented several new forms of “Haka taparahi”.

Among guests at the Prince’s reception were Nursing Sisters Porteous (NZANS) and McFarlane (AANS), who came with Lieut -Colonel Wilson, Chief Medical Offi cer of the Dutch Hospital ship “Oranje”.

Dr. Wilson was formerly well known in Rarotonga and other Central Pacific Is

lands as NZ Govt. Medical Inspector.

Pacific visitors included Madame Faive, of Noumea, and Madame C. Grand, of Papeete and Vila.

A number of well-known Maori families were represented by men of the Services.

One, Matu Rangi, of Poverty Bay, who has been invalided back from the Middle East, after being wounded, gave first hand information about the welfare of Polynesian Club members whom he en countered on the battlefields of Greece and Crete.

Donald Charles Grant, 25, clerk in the Secretary for Indian Affairs’ office, Suva, was sentenced by the Supreme Court on September 9 to nine months’ imprison ment, for extortion. He obtained money as fees from Indians who applied for immigration permits, when actually per mits were issued free of charge. Grant had been in the Fiji Civil Service since 1935.