Pacific Science Conference Opens
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In New Zealand
OVER 300 delegates from 30 countries attended the inaugural session of the Seventh Pacific Science Congress, in Auckland, NZ, on February 2. Dele gates, observers and others had been ar riving in the Dominion for weeks, many of them by air.
The Auckland session was expected to last about a week. The Christchurch ses sion will begin towards the end of the month. Between the two sessions and after the Christchurch session, touts and expeditions, designed to interest each group of scientists, have been arranged by the New Zealand host organisations— the Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland University College, Christ
church branch of the Royal Society and Canterbury University College.
The Congress is getting “a good press” in New Zealand. It is hoped that some thing of lasting importance to the Pacific Islands and their peoples will emerge from the deliberations of the distinguished guests now gathered there.
Something of the matters discussed will appear in the next issue of the “PIM.”
It has been announced in Paris that two more assistant meterologists have been appointed to New Caledonia. They are Mm. Charles Bouye and Sylvain Begaud.