Junk-Voyager's Story Enthrals
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Society
THE fascinating story of how, aided only by his wife, he sailed a 36-ft.
Chinese junk from Shanghai to Los Angeles, and from Los Angeles, via Peru to Pago Pago, Apia and Samarai (Eastern Papua), was told to the Pacific Islands Society on April 29 by an American medico, Dr. E. Allen Petersen.
It was one of the most colourful ad dresses ever heard by the Society—Dr.
Petersen is a skilled lecturer, who knows exactly how to mix the humour of quaint events with the drama of high adventure.
The Society held its annual general meeting and elected the following office bearers —Patron, H. E. Sir Harry Luke, Governor of Fiji; President, Mr. Alfred E. Stephen; Chief tainess, Mrs. Alfred Pago (Lefagoalii); deputy-Chieftainess, Mrs. I. H. Meredith; Hon, Treasurer, Mr.
J. T. Bensted; Councillors, Major H. S.
Robinson, Mr. H. C.- Monckton, Mr. Len Freeman, Mr. Eric Ramsden, Mrs. E.
Marie Irvine, and Mr. F. D. McCarthy.
As Mr. Ramsden has resigned the office owing to ill-health, the Society at present is without a secretary. Mr. Bensted is acting, for the present.