Final Contributions
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N. Guinea Rehabilitation Fund
SINCE contributions to the Rehabilita tion Fund were last acknowledged in the “PIM,” the following amounts have been received by the treasurer of the New Guinea Women’s Club of Syd ney:
General Meeting and Social
THE Annual General Meeting of the club will be held in the Feminist Club rooms, 77 King Street, Sydney, on Friday evening, July 12. Meeting commences at 8 p.m., and supper will be served at its conclusion.
A get-together evening for all Terri torians will be held in the club rooms on June 14. All are invited to come along to meet old friends.
Mr. E. M. Gollan, a well-known mem ber of Amalgamated Wireless staff, re turned to Sydney recently after re establishing radio stations on Nauru and Ocean Island, and has resumed his job of marine inspector. Mr. Gollan was on Nauru when the Japs first attacked in 1941, and he got away in March, 1942.
In an interview, Mr. Gollan very in terestingly described the wartime cruci fixion of Nauru, and how the new Administrator, Mr. Ridgeway, is carrying out the heavy task of rehabilitation. This will be published here in June.
Chaplain Rodger S. Brown, of the Methodist Mission, who is attached to the 118th Australian General Hospital in Rabaul, has been appointed a part-time chaplain to the New Guinea Infantry Battalion, and is permitted to conduct services regularly among these troops.
Such services, of necessity, have to be
conducted in Pidgin English.
Already acknowledged
£619 7 5 Mrs. J. Duncan 5 0 Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Savage 1 1 0 Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Wells 2 0 0 Madang War Charities Assoc. 120 0 6 Mr. and Mrs. K. C. McMullen 5 5 0 Mr. C. H. Meen (Rabaul) 10 0 Mrs. J. Duncan 10 0 Mrs. D. Waterhouse 7 1 6 Miss Margo Clark (proceeds of
baby frock)
1 0 9 Mrs. A. Allen Innis 4 0 0 Mrs. Malcolm (proceeds perfume) 13 6 New Guinea Comforts Fund . . 371 18 2 Net Proceeds Stall, October 5, 1945 72 4 3 Mrs. P. Froggatt 1 0 0 Miss Margo Clark (proceeds of dish) 9 0
Mrs. Browning
12 0 Mrs. Northam 11 0 Mrs. Hore Tacy 10 0 Mr. J. S. K. B. Barron (Fiji) 10 10 0 £1.218 9 1 Less payment of cheques to dependants of POW 75 0 0 £1,138 9 I