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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1952Vol. XXII, No. 9

NG Club’s Tribute to the Late

p. 114 · Read in the full issue

R. L. Clark

AN impressive ceremony took place in the Members’ Lounge of the New Guinea Club, Rabaul, NG, on March 15, when the Club’s President, Mr. K. Cummings, un veiled a photograph of the Club’s pre-war President, the late R. L.

(.Nobby) Clark. The photo depicts him with his Chief Warden’s badge of office, and was taken just prior to the Japanese landing. He was a Montevideo Maru victim.

Mr. J. C. Mullaly gave a short address in which he said that the club for which Robert Lewin Clark worked enthusiastically in the ’3o’s, was a lasting memorial to him.

The photograph (shown below)

was presented to the Club by tb late President’s brother, Mr. Le Clark, now of Sydney, and is hun above the Club’s Memorial Plaqu*