Recording History
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Society
Formed
Recording History Of New Britain
rHE Historical Society of New Britain was formed at a public meeting at Kokopo in November, md an organising committee, with Mr. S. S. Smith as Chairman, was jiven the task of drafting a con stitution.
Another public meeting set down ■or February 2, was to consider this md to elect office-bearers.
Few areas in the Pacific have had such a varied history as New Britain and the new Society is go ng to have plenty of scope for its vork. Although European history ;here is still far from a century )ld, such have been the political as well as physical) upheavals that nuch of it is already in danger of )eing lost. . The Society will have to work ast. There are few, if any, re naming human links with New Britain’s romantic past—the Ger nan era, Queen Emma, the early Missionaries, etc.—and two World wars have buried most of the ■ecords.
The Society will have many well wishers, both, within and without ; ne Territory.