South Pacific

Commission

Research Council’s Sydney Conference

11HE members of the Research Council of the South Pacific Commission and their various associates and observers concluded their important Conference at the University of Sydney on August 18 (see August PIM) and, in the following week, most of them returned home.

This was followed immediately by a meeting in Sydney of the Working Com mittee of the South Pacific Commission; and, as a result of both meetings, a good draft programme covering 1951 activities will be presented to the Sixth Session of the South Pacific Commission, which com mences in Noumea on October 20.

Having seen both meetings to a suc cessful conclusion, the Secretary-General, Mr. W. D. Forsyth, went off southwards on a long-awaited and well-earned month’s leave. He expects to return to Noumea early in October.

Guests of Pacific Islands Society THE members and officials of the Re search Council who had assembled in Sydney were entertained at a cocktail party at History House on August 18 by the President and Members of the Pacific Islands Society. Proceedings were marked by a spirit of international good will. The visitors appreciated the in formality and pleasant relations of the occasion: and the members of the Society were delighted to meet so many distin guished people from overseas.

A guest of honour was Mrs. J. K.

Murray, wife of the Administrator of Papua-New Guinea, who happened to be passing through Sydney at that time.