Function To End Apia

Golfing Season

From Our Owfl Correspondent

Apia. Dec. 11.

A DINNER dance was recently held at the Casino Hotel, Apia, to mark the close of a very successful golfing season.

About 100 people attended the func tion at which the Administrator, Lt.-Col.

F. W. Voelcker, DSO, MC, Patron of the Club, proposed the loyal toast.

The Club has now existed for 22 years. It was founded in 1925 by three gentlemen, one of whom, Mr. H. W.

Moors, is still an active member and now the Club’s Honorary Coach.

The Club is fortunate in its efficient secretary, Mr. W. A. Turner, and a good committee: Judge Herd, Messrs. A.

Macdonald, E. F. Paul, W. R. McCul loch, R. J. Vickers, H. W. Moors, and H.

S. Newton.

Membership for the season had been declared closed at 66 with a waiting list of 15, proof of the great interest shown in the sport.

Three men who worked closely with the NGVR in New Guinea, in 1942, but who were never attested, were Mr. Geoff Shaw, of Boram; the late Mr. G. M. Keogh, formerly of Maprik; and Mr. E. J. (“Blue”) Cook, formerly of Maprik and now liv ing in Australia. All three served on special duties, chiefly connected with rescue work between New Britain and New Guinea mainland after the invasion of Rabaul.