Representing Spc At Un

Conference

Mr. B. E. V. Parham, OBE, Senior Agricultural Officer, Fiji, and Associate Member of the Re search Council of the South Pacific Commission, will represent the Commission at the forth coming United Nations conference at Lake Suc cess, New York, on the conservation and utilisa tion of resources. Mr. Parhan who was educated at Canterbury College, New Zealand, has been on the staff of the Department of Agriculture, Fiji, since 1933. He is an acknowledged auth ority on practical agriculture in the tropical South Pacific, and his botanical research work has attracted the attention of students overseas.

He has made a special study of agriculture among Fijians and has been prominent in es tablishing Fijian agricultural co-opferative societies. During the 1939-45 war he played a leading part in organising the growing of fresh vegetables and fruit by Fijians for the largo forces of New Zealand and American troops stationed in Fiji. -Fiji Public Relations Office photo.