Annual Meeting

New Guinea Assn. of Queensland — Annual Meeting

fpHE first annual meeting of the Queens- X land New Guinea Association was held on March 11, in Brisbane.

Seventy-five members were present, and the following office-bearers were elected for the year 1944; President, Captain R. Kendall, RNR; vice-president, Mr. F. O. Moody; secretary and treasurer, Mrs. W. M. Haslam; com mittee, Mrs. D. Booth, Mrs. G. Thorn thwaite, Miss M. Byron, Mr. E. P. Holmes, and Mr. F. H. Conroy.

Meetings are held (as previously) on the second Saturday in each month at the Lyceum Club, 270 Queen Street, Bris bane, and visitors who may be passing

through Brisbane are always welcome. s Association is unique in that both men and women are admitted to member ship, whereas all the other clubs are essentially “women’s” clubs. The Queens land association recently affiliated with the Pacific Territories Association, and its representative gn the Executive of that body is Captain Kendall, who attends meetings on his periodical visits to Sydney There have been recent inquiries for the addresses of Mr. J. S. Reid, formerly of Asanamba Plantation, New Guinea; and Mr E j Symthe 0 f Ulamba Plan tation. Should any Territorian know the whereabouts of these two men would they communicate with the Secretary of the Queensland New Guinea Association, 160 Bowen Terrace, New Farm, Brisbane.