Praise For Mr. E. W. P.

Chinnery

From Our Canberra Correspondent Canberra, Sept. 15.

Mr. Herbert Brookes, Commissioner- General for Australia in the United States, forwards very appreciative no tices of the lectures delivered there re cently by Mr. E. W. Pearson Chinnery,

Goyernment Anthropologist in New

Guinea. Various scientific bodies have written in the highest terms of the work he has done in the Territory, as expounded in his lectures and reports.

Mr. Chinnery was, some months ago, awarded a Research Scholarship by the Rockefeller Foundation, and he is now travelling abroad. He attended the re cent session of the Mandates Commis sion at Geneva, as adviser to the Com monwealth Delegation,, consisting of Mr. P. E. Coleman, M.P., and Major Casey, and he created an excellent im pression in addressing the members of the Commission.