Meeting Called For May
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South Pacific
Commission
THE Australian Government has sent to all the countries interested in the South Pacific Commission formed at a Conference in Canberra in January, 1947, an invitation to send delegates to the first formal meeting of the Com mission on May 10 next. The suggested meeting-place is the block of ex-military buildings on St. Gedrge’s Heights, Mos man, Sydney, which now houses the Commission’s temporary offices, and the Australian School of Tropical Adminis tration.
The countries concerned are Britain, United States, France, Holland, Australia and New Zealand. All have ratified the agreement constituting the Commission, except France and Holland.
An early question to be settled is the venue of the Commission’s headquarters —Sydney is only temporary. Suva is generally favoured; but Suva is desper ately short of accommodation. The French are urging the claims of Noumea, and point out that Noumea has plenty of accommodation.