PICAO Conference Comes to Successful Conclusion

rE final reports of the technical committees of the South Pacific regional air navigation conference of PICAO which began sittings in Melbourne in early February were received on February 22. Reports were approved and the Conference dispersed with many expressions of good will The final meeting also approved the draft of a South Pacific Regional Manual from material submitted by technical sub-committees. In the manual is set out all necessary information for a pilot flying the Pacific and will embrace such things as names of airports, details of meteorological services and procedure for search and rescue.

The conference also considered a motion designed to ensure that navigational facilities established for military requirements should be continued in operation, and that if these were ever

withdrawn or changed, the nation con cerned should give adequate notice, Experts consider that the conference will result in improvements in all facili ties, available, and that in comparison with other meetings of PICAO, the Australian conference went further in the accumula tion of detailed information of facilities and services in the region. , , _, The Yen. Archdeacon H. V. €. Reynolds of the Melanesian Mission has been ap pointed to act as Administrator of the Diocese of Melanesia until a successor to Bishop W. H. Baddeley is appointed, The Hon. Camilla Wedgwood will short ly be leaving for England. As a Lieut- Colonel, she was on the Army Director ate of Research and her observations m Papua will be used to assist the Aus tralian Government to plan its post-war native educational policy.