Guinea Women of [?]urne Meet

[?]urne Meet

annual general meeting of New Guinea Women’s in., of Melbourne, was held 7 in Melbourne to hear the report of the president, Mrs.

Pratt, and to receive also port on the New Guinea ,al Scholarship Trust. i scholarships, which have warded since 1948, went, in st instance, to children of ruinea men who had lost ves during the war. With r ard for the current year, ?ible children under this of the scholarship have atered for; the trustees of holarship fund must now : future policy, initial amount of the Fund 0 raised by the New Guinea ’s Assn. This was added to me to time, and a total of ?as finally contributed. 1952. the amount of the ;hip was £3O per annum for i. It was then raised to ■ annum. At the end of

1959, all scholarships so far granted will have terminated.

Those who had benefited under the scheme are: 1948, N. Ashby; 1950, L. Linggood, lan G.

Stanton-Crouch, and Nigel R. C. Cooper; 1951, William R. Bliss; 1952, J. L. Ashby, John C.

Spensley; 1953, Gill. C. Spensley, Lois M.

Atkins, Andrew W. B. Vial: 1954, Suzanne Thompson; 1955, James S. Whitehead; 1956, Eliz. Whitehead, Carolyn Vial. t Inspector A. L. Philipp, of the Samoan Police, who is to be appointed Superintendent of Police in succession to Mr. A. D.

Buchanan at the end of the present year, left Apia for New Zealand end of June to study police methods. Chief Detective Fell, of Auckland, is to return to Apia with Mr. Philipp to advise him on Police Administration.