Mr. W. C. Groves
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Educational Work in Solomons
MR. W. C. GROVES, 8.A., Dip. Ed., F.R.A.1., who recently retired from the position of Director of Educa tion at Nauru, and who is well-known for his work in native affairs, etc., in the Western Pacific, has been seconded for service in an educational advisory capacity in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate.
Mr. Groves is an officer of the Edu cation Department of Victoria, and was seconded for educational work in the Territory of New Guinea in 1922-26, after which he was a lecturer on the staff of the Melbourne Teachers’ College; and lecturer on Pacific Affairs at the Mel bourne University Extension Board. In 1931, after a course in social anthropo logy at Sydney University, he returned to New Guinea to carry out special an thropological work under a Research Fel lowship of the Australian National Re search Council, which administered the Rockefeller grant for anthropological re search in Australia, remaining there until 1934. He was granted a further year’s Fellowship in 1936. He has pub lished a number of papers on applied anthropology and native education, his book, “Native Education and Culture- Contact in New Guinea”, published by the Australian Council for Educational Research, being used as a standard re ference on native education in British
Colonial circles. Mr. Groves attended the Carnegie Conference on Education in Pacific countries held in Hawaii in 1936.
He is a vice-president of Section F. of the Australian and New Zealand Asso ciation for the Advancement of Science.
Mr. Groves will leave Sydney for Tula
gi with his wife and three daughters, by the “Malaita” on April 1.
Mr. A. G. Judge, a New Zealander, who has been on Pitcairn Island for the past six months, returned by the February “Mataroa”.
Miss Daisy Lucas, who went to Fiji from Tasmania 20 years ago to engage in missionary work for the Methodist Mission, died in the Suva War Memorial Hospital on February 11. She was first stationed on Rotuma Island and during
her long term in the Colony served at Rewa, Ba, Suva, Levuka, and Kadavu Miss E Clark a Pitcairn Tslanrfpr daughter of a former schoolmaster there. reached New Zealand by the “Mataroa” at the end of February.