Now They Have A

The P-NG Association

Book And A Bar

• For many years, since before the war, Sydney has had its “New Guinea Bar ” where men from the Territory have met and swapped information, or looked up addresses in the "New Guinea Book”. It’s an old tradition.

NOW the tradition has been extended to Melbourne.

Phairs Hotel is the spot, com plete with book. The new meeting

place there has come into being as a result of the Papua-New Guinea Association which formed in Meibourne last year and was fully constituted this year.

The idea of the association started in early 1957 when two former Territorians, Mr. Gene Mann and Mr. Tom Drury, dis cussed it over a drink, and formed a pilot association, which later set up a permanent organisation.

Membership has been growing steadily, and 60 people attended a recent buffet dinner in Melbourne.

A bigger gathering is expected for this year’s Christmas dinner party to be held on December 13.

Membership fees are a guinea a year, and 5/- for associates.

Members’ wives automatically have

the right to become associates.

Members of the New Guinea Women’s Association, which sup ports the new organisation, have become associates.

The Association has a president —but he’s called “Lululai” —Mr.

Gene Mann, whose address is c/o Macquarie Broadcasting Service, 382 Latrobe St., Melbourne.

Objects

The aims and objects of the P-NG Association are: 1. To further public interest in the Territory of P-NG. 2. To maintain good fellow ship with present and past residents of the Territory. 3. When practical, to assist any worthy cause in the Territory.