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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1950Vol. XX, No. 12

New Ireland Sports Club In Rabaul

pp. 109-110 · Read in the full issue

NIDSA members travelled by air to Rabaul on the King’s Birthday holiday week-end, and a very good time was had by all.

NIDSA is the happy contraction used for the New Ireland District Sports Association.

It has its head quarters in Kavieng, and under the stimulus of a few enthusiasts —it has regained its pre-war place in the social life of the Trust Territory.

Captain Ove Hertz, a Swede who was well known in New Guinea before the war, has had a number of short stories published in Scandinavian journals in re cent years, and a book by him is due for publication this year.