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Successful Year
rHE New Guinea Women’s Club at Sydney successfully played its part in bringing about the •rection of the Memorial Gates at SJueen Elizabeth Park, Rabaul, in lonour of the civilians who lost heir lives in the Pacific War, states he president (Mrs. M. L. Foxcroft) n her annual report for 1954-55. [ Club members, the report con inued, had felt for some time that omething should be done and were lappy to support the suggestion put prward by the Victorian New luinea Women’s Association. ■“lt has been a combined effort y all the New Guinea women’s fganisations in Australia and their fiends,” states the report. [The Melbourne association had feen responsible for the purchase hd shipping of the gates, and Mrs. [ Pratt, the Melbourne president, ad gone to Rabaul for the opening feremony. At Rabaul, Mr. R. Gallo ay had done invaluable work for ie memorial. [A wide range of club activities at jrdney is reviewed in the report, pd a successful year is recorded.
The year’s receipts totalled £736, and expenditure of £430 left £306 to be carried forward. Donations by members and friends to the Rabaul memorial fund totalled nearly £2OO. t Final figures of F-NG contri butions to the Administrator’s appeal on behalf of NSW flood relief give a total of £18,905 for the Administrator’s fund, and other contributions sent separately brought the total to £20,777. All sections of the P-NG population contributed generously.
t When 24 Indians from Fiji arrived at Sydney by plane on July 6, a newspaper blithely stated that they were “the first group of indentured workers to be returned to their homeland from Fiji by the Indian Government.” The truth was, of course, that the 24, like thousands of others in the course of several decades, were being repatriated at the expense of Fiji. t Fiji’s revenue in the first quarter of 1955 was £1,353,127, giving a surplus for the quarter of £19,149.
Customs revenue was £768,836 — £265,283 more than in the first quarter of 1954.
Members of the New Guinea Women's Asso ciation at the Rabaul Memorial Gates, dedi cated on July 14. With the group is, extreme left, Mrs. J. R. Foldi, wife of the New Britain District Commissioner; Mr. Allen, of Jacquinot Bay (third from left), Mrs. D. M. Cleland, wife of the Administrator (fifth from left), and Mr. Fold! (back to camera). —Photo by C. H.
Meen.