PIM’s happy 50th birthday party
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One hundred and forty guests feted PlM’s 50th birthday at a dinner in Sydney on Saturday August 16 50 years to the day from Saturday August 16, 1930, the day on which the magazine first saw the light.
Pictures on this page show a few of the notables who were present.
Left to right: Former PIM editor Judy Tudor, founder and former editor R. W. Robson - the evening's Guest of Honour - and a lady who is perhaps the Pacific's most famous hoteliere, Aggie Grey, of Apia.
Left to right: John Carter, editorial adviser to and former editor of PIM, Jane Milder and Captain Brett Milder.
Left to right: R. W. Robson and author and former assistant editor of RIM, Robert L. Langdon, now of the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Australian National University.
Left to right: Luke Sela, editor of the Papua New Guinea Post- Courier, Agnes Mitchell, Fiji-born receptionist at Pacific Publi cations’ Sydney office, Len Usher, former mayor of Suva who was for many years associated with The Fiji Times, and the present editor of that paper, Vijendra Kumar.
Left to right: Former RIM publisher and editor Stuart Inder, travel writer Shirley Stackhouse and aviation business writer John Stackhouse.
Left to right: Author James Sinclair, lecturer and RIM contributor Harry Jackman, and Peter Hastings, associate editor of the Sydney Morning Herald.