Canberra launch of 'Silent Pearls'

The Australia-Japan Society of the A.C.T. invites you to a

charity fund-raising presentation and Canberra launch of

‘SILENT PEARLS’

by John Lamb

at the Snow Centre for Education in the Asian Century Canberra Grammar School, 40 Monaro Crescent, Red Hill

7pm. Wednesday 24^th February 2016

John will background Japanese involvement in the pre-war pearl-shelling  industry of northern Australia  and explain how some of the  oldest  headstones in Darwin  reveal aspects of  that history. This will be followed by the formal launch of the book by

Assoc. Prof. Frank Bongiorno and supper.

Entry  is by gold coin donation  to the  Society’s  Tohoku Youth Program.

Signed books will be available at the discounted price of $45 (cash only)

with one third of sales revenue also going to the Tohoku Youth Program.

RSVP ajspresidentact@gmail.com by 22^nd February.