Mr. W. C. Groves

Mr. William C. Groves, Well

known in connection with anthro pological and native educational work in the Western Pacific, who for the past twelve months has been carrying out a special educational survey in the Solomon Islands under the High Com mission for the Western Pacific, returned to Sydney, accompanied by his wife and three daughters in April. He has resumed duty with the Victorian Education De partment, having been appointed to a special lecturing and administrative position in connection with the extension of the work of the psychological clinic of the Melbourne Teachers’ College.

An honours graduate of Melbourne University in Arts and Education, Mr.

Groves spent three years as a Research Fellow in Social Anthropology of the

Australian National Research Council in association with the Department of An thropology of the Sydney University, carrying out field work in New Guinea, and was later Director of Education at Nauru for two years. He was one of the three Australian representatives selected for the Carnegie organisation at the in ternational conference on native educa tion held at Honolulu in 1936; and is the author of a standard book on native edu cation as well as numerous papers on ap plied anthropology and native admini stration. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Hon. Juxon Barton, C.M.G.,

Assistant High Commissioner for the Western Pacific and Colonial Secretary of Fiji, arrived in Sydney from England late in April on his way back to Suva after a tour abroad.