Review oj Reviews, 1/10/18. 



THE OVER SEAS CLUB. 



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On the motion of Mr. Kaye it was decided 

 that the Oyer Seas Olub co-operate with 

 kindred societies in the furtherance of ob- 

 jects of common interest. 



The Auckland delegati s were instructed to 

 confer with their committee and arrange a 

 suitable ceremony for use by school and 

 kindergarten teachers, expressive of indivi- 

 dual service to the Empire, and to inculcate 

 Imperial ideas in the children. This is to 

 be submitted to the secretary of the Council, 

 who will inform the branches of the proposed 

 ceremony, and if approved the Education De- 

 partment is to be approached, and permis- 



sion soughl to have it introduced in 

 public si 



It was decided to direct all branches to 

 send in quarterij reports giving the name 

 of the president and secretary of such branch. 



Regarding branch meetings, the Dominion 

 secretarj was instructed to circularise Clubs 

 with suggestions as printed and placed be- 

 fore | n conference. 



A hearty vote of thanks was accorded 

 Dominion secretary (Mr. -I. K. Macfie. Dune- 

 din) for his efforts on In-half of the Club. 



The branches are required to pay a special 

 conference levy of I' 1 . 



BRANCH REPORTS. 



Sydney, N.S.W. — Mr. Puncalfe, the presi- 

 dent, sends a copy of the syllabus of the 

 Sydney central branch. Meetings have been 

 arranged every month. That on September 

 15 was held at the King's Hall. Mr. John 

 W. Lees gave an entertainment, " Samuel 

 Lover; in Song and Story." He held the 

 audience spellbound for one and a-half hours. 

 At the close of the evening the president pre- 

 sented a great number of certificates and 

 badges to new members. The members now 

 exceed 400, and the Club is on a sound finan- 

 cial basis. 



Wagga Wagga, A 7 .,S'.1T'. — F. Purnell, hon. 

 secretary, reports that the September meet- 

 ing of the Riverina branch of the Over Seas 

 Club was held at "Wagga. The president gave 

 an address on " The History of the Over Seas 

 Movement." The meeting took the form of 

 a "quotation" evening, all quotations hav- 

 ing to refer to the Empire. 



Vuilgog, N.S.W. — On August 27th — an ap- 

 propriate day — a branch of the Over Seas 

 was started at Dungog. Some 90 members 

 were present at the meeting. Mr. F. (J. 

 Martin was elected president; Mrs. L. A. 

 Martin hon. secretary, and Mr. .1. A. Crean, 

 lion, treasurer. The president gave a stir- 

 ring address on the objects of the Club. A 

 musical programme was provided, and the 

 gathering proved most successful. 



Melbourne. — Colonel Talbot hon. secre- 

 tarv. reports that the Club has now a mem- 

 bership of 1803'. It is hoped to increase this 

 to 2OO0 before the end of October. A cricket 

 club is being formed, also a rifle club. A 

 house boat has been secured for Heiiley-on- 

 Yarra. It promises to he greatly patronised. 

 There are now two billiard tables in the 

 Club rooms. Files are kept of all Australian 

 newspapers and many English periodicals. 

 The catalogue of books in the library has 

 now been completed. Special rooms have 

 been taken for the ladies in the same build- 

 ing as the other Club rooms. They are 

 daintily furnished. Lady members use them 

 as a rendezvous and centre when they are in 

 town, as an attendant is always in charge. 



On the occasion of the visit of the English 

 Parliamentarians, the Lord Mayor, as presi- 

 dent of tie' Club, met them at Spencer- 

 street station, and welcomed them to Mel- 

 bourne. Several hundred members were 

 present 



Unhurt. — The branch now numbers some 

 450 members. The Launceston, Burnie and 



Queenstown branches are doing excellently, 

 and a branch is about to formed at Devon- 

 port. A Club room has been opened in 

 Hobart. The energetic president (Mr. H. 

 T. Gould) is engaged on a scheme for the 

 formation of a national council for Tas- 

 mania on the lines of that so successfully 

 working in New Zealand and that started 

 in 0ne<>nsland in August. 



Toowoomba, Q. — The branch did not cele- 

 brate the third birthday of the organisation 

 on August 26th, owing to other clashing 

 functions, hut will hold a social and dance 

 in October instead. Mr. Sidney Austen 

 writes: — "At our last committee meeting 

 two sub-committees were formed, one for 

 the promotion of social and useful entertain- 

 ments, and the other for the purpose of visit- 

 ing the drill ground on parade days, and 30 

 give our official recognition to the cadet 

 movement. Some time in October we hop to 

 lie able to secure the services of one oi the 

 leading metropolitan speakers for an address 

 on 'The duties and responsibilities of Im- 

 perial citizenship ' to lie followed a' inter- 

 vals by other addresses of a .similarly useful 

 and educational nature. The writer is in 

 correspondence with Britishers in Denver, 

 U.S.A.; Quetta, Baluchistan, India; and 

 Jamaica, wdio arc desirous of coming I i this 

 ■stale to settle, and we are hopeful of doing 

 real service to this part of the Empire by 

 continuing work of this nature. Also, we 

 are arranging for .some of our members to 

 gei into touch with members of the < rganisa- 

 tion in outlying parts oi the world, and 

 open up a correspondence that should b< 

 pleasant and instructive, and of 

 help in binding the Empire to- 



rep 



unit ually 



material 



gether." 



dim pie. Q. Mr. Jas. Frostick 

 that i he I In rd birl lid iy of the Club w a- o 



od by the Gympie branch in happy 

 fashion. ' The fund ion, in the form ol a 

 social ami dance, interspersed with song, was 

 admitted to he the most successful event 

 held ,1, Gyn iespite the epidemic of in- 



fluenza which interfered w t:> the mils 

 programme The Presidenl (Lieut.-Colonel 



paidgo) presith d. V beaul [fill feature 



as a gorgeous display of 



peas, Mrs. J D'Arc.v winning the 



rompei it ion, lor the best d< sign in sw< el p. as 



