Reorganised
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Pacific Islands Society Reorganised
The Pacific Islands Society, which has had a struggle to survive against ever-mounting costs, now has been reorganised under the presidency of Major C. A, Swinbourne, and the monthly meetings will be con tinued, as from November. The members in future will meet in the Feminist Club rooms, at 77 King St., Sydney, and coloured films illustrating Islands subjects will be shown at the November meeting (Friday evening, November 21).
The Society has been in existence now for nearly 20 years; and many dis tinguished visitors have addressed the members—who mostly are Sydney residents with a cultural or social interest in the Islands.
Mr. George Yates, newly ap
pointed Registrar of the Fiji Su
preme Court, has arrived in Suva
from the United Kingdom.
Mr. Em Christian, sawmiller of Norfolk Island, had some ribs crushed by a falling 44-gallon drum which was being unloaded from the Marie Del Mar in choppy seas in October. It was the ship’s first visit to Norfolk; it carried fuel oil and general cargo.
Mr. R. N. Caldwell, CMG, MC, Deputy Secretary for Fijian Affairs, has retired after mare than 45 years in the Fiji Public Service. He served as a District Commissioner in nearly all districts of Fiji, and has an ex ceptional knowledge of the Colony and its peoples.