Spc Moves To

Noumea

Members of Staff From Overseas

THE establishment of the South Pacific Commission will be moved from St.

George’s Heights, Mosman, Sydney, to the Pentagon Building, in Noumea, New Caledonia, within the next two or three weeks. Much material and equip ment already has left on cargo ships.

During December and early January, members of the Secretariat and Research Council began to assemble in Sydney from overseas. They included Mr. H. E. Maude, OBE, formerly Resident Commissioner in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, and now Deputy Secretary General; Professor L. G. M. Baas Becking (Netherlands), Deputy Chairman of the Research Coun cil; Major E. Massal (France), Research Council Officer in charge of Health.

Good progress has been made in Nou mea with the alterations in the Pentagon Building, to meet the official and residen tial requirements of the Commission’s staff.

The majority of the staff will attend the Seventh Pacific Science Congress in New Zealand in February. The Secretary- General (Mr. W, D. Forsyth), however, may be compelled to remain in Sydney and Noumea to superintend transfer and the functioning of the new organisation.