Help for Territories'

Men Women's Club Want Hospital Visitors

rE New Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney reopened on February 3, and they will hold their first social func tion for 1944 on the evening of Friday, February 25. It will be held in the Feminist Club, 77 King Street, as usual, and it is hoped that members and friends will make a special effort to attend and make this a successful start for the New Year.

After this function, it is intended to return to the former arrangement of having a club night on the second Fri day in each month. One such Friday night will be set aside for patriotic work and in the alternate month an enter tainment will be given to raise funds.

The executive of the club asks that members’ attention be directed to a spe cial branch of the work carried on by the club —hospital visiting—and the co-opera tion of all members is desired in this splendid work of visiting Territories’ sick and wounded in Sydney military hospi tals. At present, a comparatively few members are making repeated visits, and it would relieve the position consider ably if other members who have an occa sional afternoon to spare, would contact their secretary, Mrs. I. McDonald, XM3500, and have their names put on the roster for this work.

It should be unnecessary to point out that if there is one thing the Territorian, male or female, loves it is “visiting” in the strict American sense of the word, and that the boys in the hospital espe cially appreciate the visits of their own Territorian folk.

Affiliation With Pta

The Women’s Club affiliation with the Pacific Territories Association has now been completed, with the affiliation fees fixed at 3/- yearly for each member. It is hoped, therefore, that all club mem bers will show their interest in the future of the New Guinea Territories by attend ing the next quarterly meeting of the PTA, on March 14, in the Teachers’

Federation Hall, 166 Phillip Street, Sydney.