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AT their third annual general meeting in Brisbane recently, the Queens land New Guinea Association de cided to carry on as a social club, not withstanding the fact that many mem bers have returned to New Guinea or hope to do so in the immediate future.

The Association is in a very financial position, and £lOO was donated to the proposed New Guinea Trust Fund, but this donation was returned with the ad vice that there was now little likelihood of such a trust being formed. Members expressed the hope that this decision will be reconsidered at some later date.

The officers of the Association have been reduced to three in number. Those elected for the current year are: Presi dent, Mrs. G. Forsyth; secretary, Mrs. A.

Jamieson; treasurer, Mrs. S. McCosker.

The Association meets on the second Saturday of each month at the Lyceum Club, 270 Queen Street, Brisbane, and “New Guineaites” visiting Brisbane are cordially invited to attend.

A finding of “accidental death” was made in the Coroner’s Court, Sydney, on May 21, in respect of the case of Frederick Chitty, a native of New Cale donia, who fell from the “Big Dipper” at Luna Park, Sydney, on April 26. Chitty was employed on the MV “Polynesien,” and evidence was given by Sylvio Haurau, the baker on the ship, who had accom panied Chitty to Luna Park, that Chitty stood up several times in the car and once sat on the back of the seat.