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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1954Vol. XXV, No. 2

[?]emorial Gates For

p. 153 · Read in the full issue

Women Remember:

[?]emorial Gates For Rabaul

NDS to provide memorial gates for Rabaul’s Queen Elizabeth Park will be raised by women bers of the Sydney New Guinea ten’s Club, the New Guinea s. of Melbourne and Brisbane groups of ex-NG women in lide and Perth. e gates will commemorate the Guinea men who lost their during the Japanese invasion te Territory. At present there j permanent memorial to these -300 of whom were lost in the \evideo Maru sinking and •s in the jungles of New in and New Guinea, e Queen Elizabeth Park in ,ul was named last year to the coronation of the Queen. b double gates will be of ght iron, hung between cement ■s. They will be approximately et wide; in the centre filigree ,ch gate will appear the Royal r, EUR. In one of the cement s there will be a suitably Bd metal plaque, is estimated that cost of the and their installation will be The NG Women’s Club of By will shortly open a subscrip list.

Picture Night

j New Guinea Women’s Club dney will hold a picture night Tuesday, October 12, in the nist Club, 77 King St. Coloured js of New Guinea will be a.