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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1951Vol. XXI, No. 11

Annual Meeting

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New Guinea Women’S Club

THE annual general meeting and election of office bearers of the New Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney, will be held in the Feminist Club Rooms, 77 King Street, Sydney on July 19 at 11 a.m.

Montevideo Sinking

Commemoration

Members of the Club and their friends will meet at the Cenotaph in Martin Place, Sydney, at 3 p.m. on July 1. This is an annual pilgrimage in memory of those men of New Guinea who were lost when the Japanese ship, Montevideo Maru, carrying New Guinea prisoners of w ,a r jmd civilian internees, was sunk with all hands on July 1, 1942, while en route to Japan from Rabaul.