Madam President and

We Dips Our Lid To —

Madam President and Her Ladies

FOR the llth year in successioi Mrs. M. L. Foxcroft has beei elected President of the Ne\ Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney.

This must be some sort of a recorc However, it does not denote lack c enterprise on the part of the clu; members but rather that they ar. women who know that when the: have something good there is n reason to change.

Other members returned to offic at the Annual meeting in July were Vice-President: Mrs. J. Edwards Treasurer, Mrs. H, Clark; Secretary Mrs. H. J. Johnston; Committee Mesdames N. Lawes, J. Whiteman L. Clark, A. Green and K. Benny.

Mrs. L, Clark is the only ne v member elected; the rest of th ladies held office last year.

The club has now been in exist ence for 16 years. It was forme by Mrs. H. H. Page, who was th first president. She, with the activ co-operation of Mrs, U. Adams, buii it to do a very necessary job of war time service for the women who ha* been evacuated from the Territor The husbands of a large number o these women became prisoners • the Japanese in Rabaul and wei lost on the Montevideo Maru.

The club did not outlive ii usefulness with the end of the wa it has since remained a focal poir for those women whose lives we:: so drastically changed by the evem of 1942-45; and has as well pro vided a meeting place for old an present Territorians when the latte are in Sydney on leave.

Not only are these Club ladii strong on social service, they sees to have also a talent for managin their financial affairs. We note thr at the end of June they were ato to carry-forward £300 — quite 8 achievement for a small social ch of this sort in these days of snov balling inflation.