Papua-Ng Delegates
pp. 107-108 · Read in the full issue
In Sydney
ACCOMPANIED by the Director of Education for Papua and New Guinea (Mr. W. C. Groves) and Mr.
R. H. Boyan, the party of native delegates and advisers which represented Papua and New Guinea at the South Pacific Conference, spent a week in Sydney on their return from Suva. The party visited numerous cultural institutions and industrial establishments and displayed a keen and intelligent interest.
The three New Guinea representatives
were present at the weekly gathering of the New Guinea Womens’ Club where they met ladies formerly resident in the Territory.
The party, which was accommodated, while in Sydney at the Y.M.C.A., returned by Skymaster on May 13 to Port Moresby where they will return to their respective Districts.
The Rev. C. F. Gribble, general secre tary of the Methodist Overseas Mission, attended the South Pacific Conference in Fiji as a representative of the National Missionary Council of Australia and the International Missionary Council.
Mi. R. A. Derrick, Superintendent of Technical Services in Fiji, who is con ducting, for the South Pacific Commis sion, a survey of facilities for the pro fessional and technical training of people of South Pacific Territories, paid a brief visit recently to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony.