NG Scholarship Fund

Generous Help From Canada

UNEXPECTED results have come from the letters sent out by the energetic secretary of the New Guinea Women’s Association, Melbourne, asking for donations to their scholarship fund.

One surprise donation during March was a welcome £5O from Mr. C. A. Banks, now Lieut.-Governor of the Province of British Columbia, Canada, and formerly a director of BGD. Miss Stewart, the secretary of the Association, writes that she gleaned his name and address from an issue of the “PIM” and comments: “It goes to show that people should be careful about being written up in papers.”

This generous gesture by Mr. Banks is much appreciated by the Association, which is now within sight of its target of £3,000.

Miss Stewart’s latest brainwave in her quest for donations is a letter to Errol Flynn, of Hollywood a former New Guinea resident. “However,” she says, “I have protected myself, I think, and have stated that if New Guinea now means nothing in his life, please not to have his third secretary forward me an autographed photograph; for that I could not stand!”

It will be interesting to see the reaction of the übiquitous Mr. Flynn, of whom New Guinea residents have stimulating memories.

Donations to the fund should be made direct to the Secretary of the New Guinea Women’s Association, 7 Wilson Street, Moonee Ponds, W 4, Vic. During last month, several donations have been sent to Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd These, of course, are sent on to Mel bourne; but it is quicker and more con venient if the payments are made direct.

March Donations

DONATIONS made to the fund during March were:

Mr. Tom Lever and family have now made their home at Alexisliaven (NG).

Before the war they lived in Port Moresby where Mr. Lever was connected with the Steamships Trading Company. Like many evacuees, they made their tem porary home in Brisbane during the war where Mrs. Eileen Leyer will be best re membered as a representative of the AMP Society.

Amount acknowledged £2,72(5 2 10 Mr. V. C. Gabriel, c/o BP & Co., Samarai, Papua o 2 0 New Guinea Women’s Association (Queensland), c/o Mrs. Jamieson, Dudley Street, Sherwood.

Brisbane 15 15 0 Dr. Alan R. McCay, T. & G. Building, Collins Street, Melbourne . . 1 1 0 Mrs. George Smith, ’Iluka,” Sorrento, Victoria 3 0 0 Valda Youlden, 21 Clark Street, Prahran (proceeds benefit arranged) 10 0 Commander Dyson Hore-Lacey, Garua Plantation, Talasea, New Britain, TNG 20 0 0 Miss Dorothy Stewart (proceeds of work) 1 0 0 Mr. and Mrs. E. A. James, Port Moresby, Papua 3 0 Major and Mrs. R. H. Hicks, Rabaul, TNG 5 5 0 McCosker and King, Matala Plantation, Rabaul, TNG 10 10 0 Mrs. Ina Pryke, “Eversham,” 27 Victoria Parade, Manly, NSW 1 1 0 C. A. Banks, Lieut.-Governor, Pro- . vince of British Columbia, Royal Bank Building, Vancouver, BC. Canada 50 0 0 Total £2,830 0 10