Filaria Conference

Special Plane for Members

Arrangements were made in August which will allow the Conference on Filariasis, ar ranged by the South Pacific Com mission, to be held in Papeete, Tahiti, between August 20 and September 2.

As reported last month, there was doubt about the exact date of the Conference, owing to difficulties in arranging transport. However, the South Pacific Commission hired a plane from Pan American Airways, and it will leave Nadi (Fiji) on August 19 to carry the delegates and officials from that point direct to the airfield on Bora Bora (French Oceania), whence they will be trans ported the short distance to Tahiti.

The party expects to arrive in Tahiti on August 19, and the plane will return to Nadi on August 20.

It will go back to Bora Bora on September 2, and return to Nadi on the 3rd.

The Governor of French Oceania will preside at the Conference.

While playing Rugby in Rabaul during July, Sub-inspector Jack Fisher had one leg broken in two places.