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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1953Vol. XXIII, No. 11

Sydney

p. 34 · Read in the full issue

NG Women’s Club of Sydney

r!E annual meeting of the New Guinea Women’s Club of Syd ney will be held at 77 King Street, Sydney, on Thursday, July 23, at 10.30 a.m. Members will partake of morning tea before the meeting begins. Office-bearers for 1953-54 will also be elected.

Montevideo Maru Sinking

A memorial service will be held at the Sydney Cenotaph, Martin Place, on Sunday, June 28, at 3 p.m., this being the Sunday nearest July 1, on which date, in 1942, the ill fated Montevideo Maru sailed from Rabaul, NG, with several hundred European residents of New Britain on board. The ship was sunk near the Philippines and the men were lost.

The Rev. C. F. Gribble, General Secretary of the Methodist Over seas Mission, will conduct a short service.