HQrs For S. Pacific
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Commission Committee’s Inquiries In Suva And Noumea
MEMBERS of the Committee of the South Pacific Commission, set up to report on the rival claims of Suva and Noumea as headquarters for the Commission, assembled in Suva in the last week of August, to examine the situation there. Members of the Com mittee are: Britain: Mr. H. H. Vaskess, formerly Secretary of the High Commission for the Western Pacific.
United States: Dr. Karl C. Leebrick, Vice-President and Professor of Govern ment at the University of Hawaii.
France: Mons. R. F. J. Lassalle-Sere, Inspector-General of Colonies in the Min istry of Colonies, Paris.
Netherlands: Dr. J. A. de Ranitz, First Secretary, Royal Netherlands Legation, Canberra.
Australia: Rev. J. W. Burton. President- General of the Methodist Church of Aus tralasia New Zealand: Mir. C. G. R. Makay, formerly Secretary of the NZ Department of Islands Territories.
Among the sites examined in Suva is one near Mr. J. Borron’s house, Rairaiwaqa.
Mr. Barron has offered to donate some ten or twelve acres of land to the Com mission if the site is chosen for head quarters.
After some days in Suva, the Committee went on to Noumea, for a similar investi gation. It will report to a meeting of the Commission in Sydney in October.
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