Mrs. Fenner's Birthday
pp. 75-76 · Read in the full issue
AVERY large number of ex-Fiji resi dents were present at Mrs. May Fenner’s birthday party at David Jones Store, Sydney, in April. Mrs.
Fenner is now 82. but none present there were younger in wit, vivacity and zest of living.
Mr. E. G. Upton, proposing the health of their guest, remarked on the popu larity and charm of the lady, which had held together so large a circle of friends over so many years. He caused a merry stir by reading extracts from a “Navua Minstrel and Variety Show” programme, dated 1904.
It was suggested to Major C. A. Swin bourne, president of the Pacific Islands Society, who was among the guests, that the “Kia Vitis” should join hands at the Society’s monthly meetings, and make Mrs. May Fenner “The Pin-up Girl of the Pacific”.
A painting by Western Samoan artist, Mr. Charles McPhee, was recently repro duced in the New Zealand publication “The Arts Year-Book, 1946.” The paint ing was a study of a Samoan woman.
The engagement has been announced of Miss Patricia Francis Lussick, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Lussick, of Maramakas and Logagon Plantations, New Ireland to Mr. Maxwell Turner, of Rockdale, NSW. Mr. Wally Lussick, ex- RAAF pilot is at present managing his father’s Logagon Plantation, while an other ex-RAAF nilot is managing Mara makas. Both these estates have been brought back into production and are approaching pre-war output. Mr. Lussick, Snr., is at present living in NSW.