Promoting Peace In The

Pacific

THE principal of the Women’s College, Sydney University, Miss Betty Arch dale, has been appointed chairman of the newly formed NSW section of the Pan-Pacific Women’s Association (Aus tralia). .

Mrs. Roberto Regala, wife of the Minis ter for the Philippines, presided at a crowded meeting held on September 26 in Sydney, and the Hon. Camilla Wedgwood gave an address on the pattern of cul tural changes in the Pacific.

The objects of the Association are to strengthen the bonds of peace and pro mote a better understanding among peoples in the Pacific, and initiate op portunities for the study and betterment of existing social conditions.

Sixty-one women, representing Aus tralia, China, Hawaii, India, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, the Philippines, American Samoa, and the United States Mainland, attended the fifth conference, held in Honolulu in August, 1949. Australia was represented by Lady Cilento.

The Rev. Setareki Tuilovoni recently re turned to Fiji from the United States of America, where he has been a student at a Theological College in Madison New Jersey He was welcomed at a special ser vice held in the Methodist Jubilee Church in Suva.