Ng Scholarship
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Fund
Now Passed £3,000 Mark
rE New Guinea Scholarship Fund which was opened by the New Guinea Women’s Asociation of Mel bourne last year had reached £3,038 at the end of May.
Three thounsand pounds was the amount necessary to endow, each year, a scholarship of £3O per annum tenable for three years.
After getting off to a slow start last year, the Fund increased in leaps each month due to the generosity of New Guinea and overseas friends and to the unfailing enthusiasm of the Scholarship Committee, led by Miss Dorothy Stewart.
The work of collecting this sum of money cannot be minimised. But the New Guinea women who spent their evacuee years in Melbourne many of them have since returned to the Territory —have thus, by their own efforts, built the most worth-while kind of monument to the memory of those New Guinea men who lost their lives in the war— that is, by helping to provide for their children.
DONATIONS to the Ftmd in May were; (Total received and acknowledged to April 30, 1947) £2,918 6 6 Mr. B. M. Ritchie, Port Moresby 1 1 6 Father J. B. Poncelet, Bougain ville Island 100 R.S.S. & A.IX. of A. Kavieng Sub-branch 500 Rdf Cambridge, Buka Passage,
Tng 500
Bishop T. J. Wade, Bougainville,
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L. H. Corbett, Rabaul ... 3 3 0 Mr. and Mrs. G. Mirfield, Haw thorn East. Victoria 110 Mrs. Murray Edwards. St. Morris, SA 110 R. J. Franklin, Lae, TNG ... 3 0 0 C. W. MacFarlane, Lae. TNG 2 0 0 D. McDonald Lae, TNG ... 5 5 0 L. Poland. Lae. TNG 10 0 Anonymous friend, Lae, TNG . 10 6 J. Dodd, Lae. TNG 10 0 J. Irvine, Lae. TNG 110 Mrs. A. J. Long. Lae, TNG 1 1 0 W. Tracey, Lae, TNG 2 0 0 E. Bowden, Lae. TNG 10 0 A. Davis, Lae. TNG ... 2 0 0 S. Sutherland. Lae, TNG .. .. 2 0 0 R.A.A.F. Ball. Lae TNG ... 52 2 6 Mr. and Mrs. Bailey. Lae. TNG 2 2 0 Harry G. Murray, Witu. TNG 2 2 0 Mr. and Mrs. Hurre’J, Morobe.
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Mrs. H. Holland. East Malvern, Vic. (sale of knitting) 16 0 Dorothy Stewart. Moonee Ponds, Vic. (proceeds benefit arranged) 10 0 Total received to May 30, 19'47 £3,038 16 0
Secretory Returns to New Guinea
Miss Dorothy Stewart, The Sec
retary of the Association, will return to New Guinea at the end of June.
The Melbourne Women’s Association has now become purely a social club which will meet on the first Saturday of each rponth at 2.30 p.m.
The Scholarship Fund will be run in
dependently.
Miss Stewart (address; c/o Cosmopoli tan Hotel, Rabaul, NG), will continue as secretary of the Fund. All communi cations should be made direct with her.
Trustees of the Fund are: Perpetual Trus tees and Executors of Australia Ltd., 100 Queen Street, Melbourne and Mrs. L. C.
May. Mr. C. Fyffe is honorary solicitor!
Small Ship for Western Samoa
rE Western Samoan firm of O. F.
Nelson & Company recently pur chased a small vessel in Auckland for the island trade.
The ship is the “Wairuru” which has been used in the New Zealand coastal trade since 1938 when she was built. She is 55 feet long with a beam of 15 feet and is powered by a diesel engine. Her draught is only 3 feet which should make her admirably suited for work among island reefs.
She was expected to leave for Apia, under her own power, in early June.
The New Caledonian Home Guard, formed originally in December, 1941, by Governor Sautot when there seemed danger of a Japanese invasion, was dis banded on February 1. Members are asked to return the arms with which they were issued (these are US Army rifles) to the military authorities.