New Outlook In Pacific
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Islands Government Significant Conference In Canberra
THE new principles and ten dencies which now influence the administration by the European nations of the Islands of the Pacific were indicated by the character and proceedings of a Conference which took place in Canberra in the latter part of August. The delegates were Jubilee Year guests of the Australian Gov ernment, and the discussions centred on the subject, “Social Pro cesses in the Pacific.”
The following well-known people took part; Dr. Margaret Mead, Assistant Curator of Ethnology, American Museum of National History.
Professor Ernest Beaglehole, Professor of Psychology at the Vic toria University College, Welling ton. NZ.
Professor A. P. Elkin, Professor of Anthropology at Sydney University.
M. Jean Guiart, of Institute Francais d’Oceanic, Noumea.
Mr. Coring G. Hudson, executive secretary of the Pacific Science Council.
Mr. H. E. Maude, Research Coun cil Member for Social Development, South Pacific Commission.
Dr. A. Grenfell Price, Department of Geography, Adelaide University.
Dr. A. Capell and Dr. lan Hogbin,
of the Department of Anthropology, Sydney University.
Mr. W. D. Forsyth, lately Secre tary-General of the South Pacific Commission and now Australian Minister at the United Nations.
Miss Camilla Wedgwood, of the Australian School of Pacific Ad ministration.
The conference dealt with aspects of social research in the Pacific, the changing structure of family and higher kin units, economic develop ment, and the changing political role of Pacific Islands peoples.