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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1953Vol. XXIV, No. 3

Port Moresby Ladies

p. 130 · Read in the full issue

Get Tough

With One Another

WOMEN’S Clubs are not new, course, in the old world; be one wonders how long the. popularity would endure if membee ship entailed having one’s houu visited by other members and onei name entered in the Club’s reco:c book if things were not quite up scratch.

But. that is what happens Women’s Clubs in native villag§ around Port Moresby, and, so fi as we know, there have been i mass riots as yet.

The Clubs are under the directiw of the P-NG Education Departmee and their purpose is to widen th interests of village women and in prove the health standards of tli native community.

Instruction in sewing, cookin. infant care and feeding and, course, keeping the house clean, , given. The women themselves the clubs and hold very properll' conducted meetings. They hay organised profit-making ventures < order to raise funds for the cluh