N.G. Scholarship

Fund

Further Welcome Donations

THE New Guinea Women’s Association of Melbourne which is working hard to bring its Scholarship Fund for children of deceased New Guinea Service men, up to the required £3,000, had several surprise donations at the end of the year.

The New Guinea Branch of the Country Women’s Association of NSW sent a donation of £2OO which had originally been collected, for various war charities.

Miss K. E. Campbell, of the CDC Mess in Lae, sent £43/13/- which represented proceeds from their “winding-up dance.”

Mr. and Mrs. James S. K. Borron, hitherto unknown friends from Fiji, sent £ll/13/4.

The Rev. F. R. Bishop, formerly of Rabaul and now Rector of St. John’s Hospital in Bath, England, sent £5, which realised £6/5/- in Australian currency. Another English donation came from Mrs. F. E.

Williams, formerly of Papua, where her husband was Government Anthropolo gist until his death in a plane accident during the war. Mrs. F. Stewart and Miss Ela Gofton of the Lae hotel sent £47/5/- representing donations collected from people passing through Lae.

The Scholarship Committee of the Association would like to express special thanks to people responsible for these donations —some of them now living at a great distance from the Territory.

Donations to the Fund to December 31, are: Previously acknowledged donations to 30/11/46 £2,224 2 0 Mrs. H. Wayne, “Carinja,” Honour Avenue Lawson, NSW 2 116 James L. Leahy, Mt. Hagen, via Lae, NG 580 Danny Leahy, Ht. Hagen, via Lae, NG 5 5 0 Michael J. Leahy, Lae, NG . . 5 5 0 New Guinea State Branch RSS & AIL of A, George Street North iP.O. Box 31, Sydney, NSW .. 10 0 0

Scotty MJcEwan, Lae New Guinea . 2 0 0 A. G. Vaag, Lae, New Guinea . . 110 J. A. Crockett, Lae, New Guinea . . 110 A. J. Slee, Lae, New Guinea ... 110 F. Whelan, Lae, New Guinea ... 10 0 R. I. Franklin, Lae; New Guinea 2 0 0 J. G. Mayos, Lae New Guinea . . 110 W. Mayos, Lae, New Guinea . . 110 B. Parer, Lae, New Guinea ... 100 C. T. Gleason, Lae, New Guinea . . 10 0 R. H. Dennis, Lae, New Guinea , . 2 0 0 J. Sorensen, Lae, New Guinea ... 100 H. Rae, Lae New Guinea 10 0 H. C. Holder, Lae, New Guinea . . 1 0 0 W. Marshall, Lae, New Guinea . . 10 0 J. Jackson, Lae, New Guinea 6 0 L. Tudor, Ramu, New Guinea . . 5 5 0 H. Gilbert, Lae, New Guinea . . 10 0 R. Day, Lae, New Guinea ... 10 0 P. Dennis, Lae, New Guinea ... 500 W. Coutts, Lae, New Guinea ... 200 J. Cooper, Lae, New Guinea ... 90 W. Cash, Lae, New Guinea ... 500 T. Sjaviane, Lae New Guinea ... 100 Mrs. F. S. Stewart, Lae, New Guinea 10 0 0 H. F. Bitmead, Samarai 10 6 Jock McKay, Asuramba Plantation, Madang 220 Country Women’s Association of NSW, New Guinea Branch, c/o Miss M. Head, Cremorne, NSW 200 0 0 J. Scott Marshall, c/o Metal Manufacturers, Ltd., Mari byrnong, Vic 110 G. A. Louden, Eilogo Estate, Papua 5 5 0 I. S. Louden, Eilogo Estate, Papua 2 3 0 Mr. and Mrs. T. Yeomans, Vau clause, NSW 506 Mrs. R. Rigby. Blackburn (Pro ceeds Benefit) 100 Mrs. L. Gilbert, St. Kilda, Vic. . . 110 Mr. and Mrs. C. Slattery, East Malvern 110 Mr. E. Knox, Department of Works, Brisbane 10 0 Mr. and Mrs. M. S. King, Brighton le-Sands, NSW 10 10 0 New Guinea Women’s Association, Adelaide, SA (Proceeds Sale Gifts) 12 0 CDC Mess, Lae, NG (c/o Miss K.

E. Campbell), Proceeds of Wind ing-up Function 43 13 0 Mrs. F. E. Williams, Hindhead, Surrey, Eng 220 H. M, Prosser, Bulolo, NG ... 110

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Fleming, Lac, NG 5 0 (j Mr. and Mrs, J. Laird, Oakleigh, Glebe Point, NSW 10 0 G. S, Robertson, c/o BGD, Bulolo, NG 110 Rev. F. R. Bishop, St. Johns Hos pital, Bath, Eng 6 5 0 Valda Youlden, 21 Clark Street, Prahran, Vic. (Proceeds Benefit Arranged) 3 19 0 Dorothy Stewart, Moonee Ponds, Vic. (Proceeds Benefit Ar ranged) 500 Mr. and Mrs. V. H. Sully, Sogeri, Papua 110 1). H. Osborne, Rossel Island, Papua 1 0 0 Mir. and Mrs. James S. K. B.

Borron, Mago Island, Lau, Fiji 11 13 1 Total £2,612 19 4

Mrs. J. K. Murray, wife of the Adminis trator of the Papuan-New Guinea Pro visional Government, was entertained at a luncheon party in Brisbane recently.

She was on her way back to Port Moresby after visiting the southern Australian States.

The death occurred in December of" Mr.

Carl Adams, of Suva, Fiji. He was born in Western Samoa 45 years ago, but came to Fiji as a youth and worked there for Brown and Joske Ltd. He returned to Samoa for some years, but went back to Fiji in 1936. For the last six years he had been foreman of the Suva mosquito control organisation and, in this capacity, he became well known to Suva citizens.

He is survived by his wife, three sons and four daughters.

For political reasons, Colonel Dr. Gaf fiero, Health Department chief in New Caledonia, was in 1941 retired by decree.

His Noumea friends have the satisfaction of learning that he has now been re instated without interruption of service till August, 1943, the date when he reached the age limit on the active list.