in Sydney

New Guinea Women's Club Busy in Sydney

FORMED only a short time ago the New Guinea Women’s Club, of Syd ney, has already sent 160 parcels of comforts to New Guinea men serving with the fighting forces overseas.

The club consists of New Guinea women who are residing temporarily in Australia, or who have lived in the Mandated Terri tory. Membership numbers 48 and regular meetings are held at the Feminist Club, 77 King Street, Sydney; any funds necessary are raised by card parties, etc.

Office-bearers are well known in New Guinea: Mrs. H. Page, wife of the Gov ernment Secretary, is president; Mrs. B.

B. Perriman, whose husband was manager of W. R. Carpenter & Co. interests in New Guinea for many years and who is now with the Sydney office, is vice president; Mrs. Harry Adams, the treas urer, has spent 22 years in the Territory where her husband is a planter; Mrs.

Barry Parkes, secretary, is daughter of Captain and Mrs. Savage, of Rabaul, and lives in Hong Kong. The committee con sists of Mesdames W. B. Rowe (of Kokopo), C. H. Maclean (15 years in New Guinea), A. Kelly (Rabaul), and Mrs. J.

Newport, whose husband was Director of Agriculture some years ago.

Other members include Mesdames Bald win, Bates, Duncan, Dwyer, Edgell, Ewen, Farlow, Foxcroft, Garton, Green, lan Maclean, Maxwell, Margetts, Mears, New port (2), Thompson, Twist, Wanliss, Wauchope, Waugh, Woodhill and Miss Maxwell.

Until her departure recently for Rabaul, where her husband is a member of the Government Service, Mrs. R. Brinston was secretary; and Mrs. Steven Lonergan relinquished her position as treasurer for a similar reason.