Annual Meeting NG Women’s
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Assn, of Melbourne
THE New Guinea Women’s Association of Melbourne held its annual general meeting on July 1. The following officer bearers were elected: Mrs. H. A.
Gregory, president; Miss V. Youlden, secretary: Mrs. L. C. Farnsworth, treasurer.
Monthly meetings are held in Mel bourne and although these have taken the form of social occasions a number of other matters have been attended to during the last year.
The Memorial Scholarship Fund has continued to grow and three scholar ships were granted this year. The Queensland NG Women’s Association was given £25 towards a scholarship fund for that State.
Members joined in a service with the 2/22 Battalion at Melbourne Shrine to commemorate the fall of Rabaul on January 23, 1942. And on Anzac Day they joined with the War Widows’
Guild for a service.
Last December 10 a Christmas party was held and 80 members and their friends met.
At a recent meeting it was decided to make a gift to the new Anglican Church at Lae, New Guinea. This will take the form of a book case and table in honour of the men from New Guinea who gave their lives in World War 11.