Papua and N. Guinea
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Fraternise in Sydney
WHEN the New Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney, and the Pacific Terri tories Association combined for a social evening at the Feminist Club Rooms, Sydney, on September 17, over 170 Territorians attended the function— a creditable performance from people who have been scattered to the four winds of heaven since World War II began.
Territorians are auto-entertaining Given large slices of time and a crowd of people whom they know, they can keep
A SPECIAL general meeting of the New Guinea Women’s Club will be held in the Feminist Club Rooms, 77 King Stret, Sydney, at 3.30 p.m. on Saturday, October 30.
Business: To discuss the affiliation of the Club with the Pacific Ter ritories Association in matters of policy concerning Territories’ resi dents during the present or post war period. All members are urged to attend.
Members are reminded also that in future the Club will meet on the second Friday evening in each month. Social and u wofk night” will alternate. The next such date is November 12; it will be a social function and members and their friends are asked to bring any cards or games that they might wish to play.
themselves amused indefinitely—a legacy from a land where leisured conversation has not yet become a lost art.
The lift in the building was, as usual, temperamental; but after one load of people was rescued from between heaven and earth qnd many more had staggered up the seven flights of stairs, everyone settled down to a steady snot of “talkina place”—and whatever is the Papuan equivalent. A musical programme was in the capable care of Mrs. A. F. Kyle who, herself, sang charmingly. She was assisted by Miss Hilda Sutton (violinist), Miss Dorothy Mason (pianist) and Mr.
Raymond Frith (tenor). All too little was heard of these young artists.
Mrs. H. H. Page, president of the Women’s Club, and Mr. E. A. James, president of the PTA, received the guests and during the evening, the sale of flow prs, sweets and proceeds from competi tions added substantially to the funds of the Women’s Club.
With advantage there could be more of these combined functions which would bring together the residents of Parma and New Guinea (now lumped together pro tern as Australian New Guinea).
Every resident of these Territories should do his or her utmost to foster a spirit of co-operation in their ranks. The Ter ritorian has been a rugged individualist in the past; and will be again. But, in the interval, it is essential that all should unite in a common frfont.. and anything; that encourages that spirit of unity is to be commended.
Flight-Lieutenant M. O’Connor, RAAF, formerly of Suva, Fiji, has been awarded the DFC for a “high record of success in operations in the Middle East.” He was born in New South Wales and joined the Sydney staff of Burns Philp in 1926. In 1930 he was transferred to the Suva branch and, prior to enlisting in 1940, was the branch’s senior accountant.