Queen Emma Links
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Ralum Club Has Queen Emma Links
A Club for mixed races, very considerable social vai has been established at Koko New Guinea, by Mr. Jc Aquiningo. It has 65 m< bers, including part-Eu peans, Chinese, Europeans t natives, and it functions acth as a social centre for the pec there.
It is called the Ralum C because it is established wit a few yards of the foundati of “Queen Emma’s” old r dence, “Gunantambu”, fr which she ruled the em\ which she established at Ral between 1880 and 1910. old plantation house, occup for a long time by Mr. Ro has been taken over by the C and remodelled as a mod club-house. Mr. Rowe has n returned to Australia and i Don Preston is now the mana of the plantation upon wh “Gunantambu” was forme established.
All that now remains “Gunantambu” are the cem blocks upon which the ho was built—it was destroyed the Japanese during the wa and the famous, wide, concr\ stairway which led from terrace down to the sea-shc The road from the foot of steps to the Ralum wharf, o/ traversed daily by “Qw Emma”, (Mrs. Paul Kolbe) , gone back to the jungle.