Research Into Pacific Languages
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Prom Our Own Correspondent HONIARA, April 30.
MR. GEORGE MILNER, from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, who has spent two years in the Pacific con ducting research into native languages, returned to Sydney in April to return to the UK in the Orcades.
Mr. Milner brought sound-recording equipment to the Pacific and made many records of native music and a considerable number of language recordings. The last six months of his tour were spent in the British Solomon Islands where he ob tained some very interesting material.
Some of his recordings will be used to familiarise cadet officers in the British Colonial Administrative Service, posted to Pacific Colonies, with languages and
native customs which they may encounter there.
Solomon Islands music and languages have never previously been recorded in this way. During his stay in the Solo mon Islands Mr. Milner concentrated mainly on the languages of the Western Solomons.