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Two Universities to Specialise in Pacific Studies

THE University of Hawaii is going to make a bid for the lead in Pacific studies and is in a favourable po sition to do so.

The Department of Anthropology and Sociology is strong. The staff headed by Dr. Leonard Mason, includes Dr. Emory of the Bishop Museum, and Dr. Kather ine Inomala, noted for her work in Poly nesian Folklore.

This Department will commence this year, a Pacific Islands Area Programme which will include a close study of the sociological problems of the South Pacific.

Dr. Ralph Piddington, Ma, Is To

leave Edinburgh in September for Auckland where he is to be Pro fessor of Anthropology. The new Pro fessor took his MA at Sydney University and has held the Readership in Social Anthropology at Edinburgh University.

Auckland intends to offer a course in Anthropology to the MA level and will be placing special emphasis on the Pacific, particularly Polynesia.

The youngest and the oldest passengers on the Air France Skymaster which lanided at Eagle Farm (Brisbane) on July 6, were six-year-old Rhoda McLean and her 76-year-old grandmother. Rhoda is the daughter of Mr. H. McLean, who, until recently, was with Burns Philp (NH), Ltd. He has resigned his po sition because of ill health. Grand mother is Mrs. A. Nicholls, who returned to Queensland after 46 years in the New Hebrides.

Mr. E. V. O’Brien, of Mililat Planta* tion, Madang, returned home recently after a visit to Sydney.