Ng Education Expert Goes
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To India
Miss Barbara Mclachlan, Ba, Is
the Australian representative at an Asian Seminar being held at My sore, India, from November 2 to December 14. Miss McLachlan is a graduate of Sydney University, where she specialised in Anthropology, and she taught in NSW secondary schools before going, in 1947, to her present position as Officer-in- Charge of the Female Education Branch, Papua-New Guinea Education Depart ment. Part of her work in New Guinea has been the establishment of schools for native girls, and women’s centres.
Experts from many countries will at end this seminar, which is being spon sored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.
They will discuss problems connected with rural adult education, such as illiteracy, agricultural methods and economic co operation.
Miss McLachlan hopes to gain much of value, not only to the education authori ties in New Guinea, but also in the
training and teaching of aborigines in Australia.
Annual report, of the Fiji Police Depart ment shows that road accidents in 1948 increased by 20 per cent, on previous year.
Two persons were killed and 113 injured.