The Polynesian Club Of
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Sydney
DURING November, the Polynesian Club’s gatherings were well attended.
A young visitor from Nukualofa, Tonga, was Miss Trude Cameron; and from Samarai came Mr. Bruce Hamilton, a well-known pre-war identity of that Island town. From Norfolk Island were Mr. and Mrs. Cobby Robinson, with their daughter, Mrs. Audrey Scott, and Mr. Bill Quintal and his son Robert, who is now somewhere in Australia with the AIF.
French visitors included Chief Corporal Fred. Chitty, who has seen long service with the Pacific Battalion in Libya and Italy. He was able to give news of many of the club’s friends in that battalion, who stayed some months in Sydney four years ago and were constantly at the club.
Another Tahiti visitor was Petty-Offlcer George Chambon, lately married to a “vahine Bora Bora” over there. He paid a return visit after four years’ service with the Free French Navy in Mediter ranean and Pacific waters.
Among the club’s patriotic efforts in November were a concert for an Educa tion Department Comforts Fund and a presentation of Maori dances at a special evening arranged by the New Zealand War Unit, at the Anzac Buffet, Hyde Park, Sydney.
Chaplain J. C. Rundle, of the Methodist Mission, Papua, died on November 1, as the -Jesuit of a motor accident. He was chairman of the Mission in Papua, where he served for 16 years. Recently he was Air Force chaplain, based at Milne Bay.
Mrs. Rundle was formerly Matron Henry, of the Salamo Methodist Hospital in Papua.