Annual Meeting Of Pi

Society

Major C. A. Swinbourne Elected President

rE finances of the Pacific Islands Society are now in a healthier state than last year and the drift that was noticed during 1945 has been arrested.

This was shown in the report of the re tiring president, Mr. Frederick D. Mc- Carthy, which he presented at the annual meeting of the Society in History House, Sydney on July 25.

There are now 115 members of the Society, including 21 new members and with membership subscriptions, social evenings and donations the year closed with a small credit balance.

During the year members of the society met once a month, usually in History House, where they heard addresses by various gubst speakers.

Among special activities of the Society was the presentation of Bailey Hamilton’s Physical Signs in Clinical Work, to the most successful student in the graduation class of the Central Medical School, Suva.

After the report had been read and accepted, certain alterations to the Society’s constitution were considered and officers for 1946-47 were elected. Maior C. A. Swinbourne, QBE, formerly pro minent in the Gilbert and Ellice Admini stration, will be president for the forth coming year.

The meeting concluded with an address illustrated with lantern slides, by the re tiring president, Mr. McCarthy, on the “Aborigines of Sydney.”

The Rev. W. F. Paton, of the Pres byterian Overseas Mission. Ambrin, New Hebrides, with his wife and family, will

visit Australia on leave at' the end of this year.

Hay Ferris, aged 16, was killed in an accident in the Sanitarium Health Food factory, at Cooranbong, NSW, on May 12.

He fell 50 feet on to a concrete floor. He was the elder son of Pastor N. A. Ferris, a Seventh Day Adventist Missionary well known in the Western Pacific Islands.

Mr. John Herrman, the son of Josef J. Herrman, an old time Cl trader, has been appointed manager of Messrs. A.

B. Donald Ltd.’s branch store at Aitutaki, and- left Mangaia, with his family, some time ago in order to take up the new post.