Polynesian Club Of

Sydney

AMONG visitors to the . Polynesian Club of Sydney during October was , 4. r ; T aid Abdalla, well-known resi d|niof Noumea and a foundation member of the Club. With him came four young men from Wallis Island (Uvea) who were welcomed by the Islands and Maori memoers in the traditional manner, with song and dance.

Free French sailors also present at the gathering entertained with songs of the sea and military ditties in French. Madame Boshier, formerly of Tahiti, was in the French party, with her daughter, Mrs Odette Christian, wife of George Starr Christian, of Norfolk Island.

Another Pacific visitor was Mrs Iser- Ime Gosnell, formerly of Suva, Fiji who is a descendant of Gauna You, a noble lady of Tonga and aunt of Vila!

Tubou (brother of Queen Salote of Tonga).

On show at this function was a fine autographed photo of the new Makea nui Takau anki, of Rarotonga (Mrs. T Lovei who is a vice-president of the Club. The Makea’s husband is a cousin of Wikita Tupene, one of the Club members now on active service. .. Mr ; y* G. Smith, one of the best known knights of the road” in the Western Pacific paid one of his usual visits to Rabaul, New Guinea, last month by airliner.

Mr. R. (“Bob”) Bunting, formerly of Samarai, Papua, and now a corporal with the AIF in Malaya, “celebrated” in mid- October when he received news of the birth of a daughter—Beverley— to his wife in Sydney.