Polynesian Club News
p. 51 · Read in the full issue
VISITORS to the Sydney Polynesian Club in May included Tahitian lads from French Naval Forces—among them old friends, Alex Salmon (son of Princess Poma), and the Tahitian “comi que” and musician, “Bombo” Moe.
New members were Edwin Vivish and Henri Carlson, sons of old friends of the president, Mr. L, Moran.
Another Tahitian visitor was Gustave Levy, who met an old school mate in Rosita Maeva Goodman, of Tipaerui, Tahiti.
From Nukualofa, Tonga, was LAC Evan Cameron, RAAF, who came with his wife and his sister Truda.
Among Maori visitors was Henry Larkin, of Foxton, NZ, who gave a stirring Maori haka. The younger generation of Aus tralian-Polynesians was represented by Miss Marama Toki and her brother, LAC Warren Toki, children of the Maori singer, Noho Toki.
Norfolk Island visitors were Mr. Fred Snell and his son Herbert; Private David Hooker, AIF, and Mrs. K. Burgess. The former Dora Buffet, now Madame Menghetti, also came along prior to her departure for Norfolk Island on holiday.
Some- of the Tahitian matelots, part nered by Pepe Goodman and Cora Young, accompanied the Club Concert Party to a military hospital, where their island music and songs, with the Tahitian dancing of young Eugene Pambrun, of Papeete, stopped the show.
The Australian soldier patients greatly appreciated this new form of entertain ment.