Birthday Party For Pioneer Territorian

Mrs. Nell Garton, one of Rabaul’s best liked and respected pioneer women, celebrated he 80th birthday recently in sydney. She has been in ill-health for the past year, and memvers of the New Guinea Women's Club visited her on that day bearing flowers and gifts to fill her room. This photograph was taken just a year ago on Mrs. Garton's 79th birthday when some of her New Guinea friends gave her a birthday picnic in the Sydney Botanical Gardens. Stand ing (left to right): Miss Heather Innes, Mrs. Good, Mrs. Newport, Miss B. Mears, Mrs. Watson, Mrs. Foxcroft, Mrs. Hector Baldwin. Seated Mrs. Davies, a sister of Mrs. Garton, Mrs. A.

Allen Innes, Mrs. Nell Garton, the guest of honour, and Mrs. Cooper.