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Pacific Islands Monthly, 17 December 1942Vol. XIII, No. 5

"Social Afternoon" by NG

p. 39 · Read in the full issue

Women's Club

THE New Guinea Women’s Club, of Sydney, are holding another of their well-known social gatherings at the Feminist Club rooms, 77 King Street.

Sydney, on Saturday, January 9, 1943, at 2.15 p.m.

Bridge and other card games will be played, and the small charge made for admission will go towards Club funds.

All Pacific Territories’ residents, men or women, members or non-members, are welcome —and a special invitation is extended to Islands’ members of the fighting forces.

Captain George Henry King, who spent much of his early life in and about the Pacific Islands, died in November in Auckland, aged 60.

Captain E. W. Harness, of the G. & E.

Administration vessel Nimanoa (which was put on the reef to save her from the Japs, at Tarawa, on December 10) has been transferred to the public service of Fiji.

Major W. C. Groves, of the Army Educational Service, who has been stationed in Port Moresby for 15 months, arrived in Sydney in December, having been transferred to headquarters in Aus tralia. He formerly carried out anthro pological research in New Guinea, Nauru and British Solomon Islands.