Seeking Central Rooms

New Guinea Women's Club

MEMBERS of the New Guinea Women’s Club, of Sydney, have felt for some time, that the room which has been kindly made available by the Feminist Club, in King Street, once each week (and for occasional extra func tions), is inadequate for their purposes.

A general meeting, held at the Depart ment of * External Territories, Australia House, Carrington Street, Sydney, on Saturday, February 5, decided to co operate with the recently re-constituted New Guinea Branch of the RSSAILA, to find new club rooms, which always will be open to New Guinea evacuees and servicemen. Most evacuees have a .iob to do, these days, and find it impossible to attend the usual Thursday gathering of the Women’s Club; and club rooms, of the sort planned, will fill a long-felt want of servicemen—“ex” and actual —who have a few moments to spare for reading or refreshment.

However, it is one thing to make re solutions regarding better club facilities — quite another to find them. In this period of over-regulation, over-crowding, and over-everything else that makes life unpleasant, it is almost impossible, in Sydney, to find even a 9 ft. x 9 ft. room in which to sleep, and it is to be feared that the search of the Women’s Club — RSSAILA, will be neither short nor easy.

Nothing pretentious is needed—only a large room, centrally situated, and with a few conveniences for making tea, etc.

The fact that the pockets of ex- Territories’ residents are not deep, these days, further complicates matters. But results—if and when there are results — will be worth it, not only for the present, but as the foundations of a permanent New Guinea Club in Sydney—the want of which was felt for many years prior to the outbreak of World War 11.

Regimental Sergeant - Major James Rennie, a Cook Islander and a graduate of the Central Medical School, Suva, Fiji, is now serving with the NZEF in the Middle East. He is attached to the First Casualty Clearing Station and, in a re cent letter to his form instructor, Dr. E.

V. Maxwell, he describes his experiences in the second British offensive in Libya.

Captain H. T. Keinzle. former managing director of Yodda Goldfields, Ltd.. Papua, is now Captain H. T. Keinzle, of ANGAU.

As Lieut. Kienzle, he spent all the strenuous months between July and December out on the Owen Stanley track, assisting in the organisation of long lines of Papuan carriers—work carried out so successfully that, simul taneously, he had a breakdown in health and was sent back to Sydney, and was promoted to captain. He now has re turned to Papua.