The Central Highlands’
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Fairy Godfather
Although Mr. e. j. Haiistrom handed over his experimental station, Nondugl, in the Cen tral Highlands of New Guinea to a well-endowed Trust, he continues to take a keen personal interest in the attempts being made there to ac climatise sheep, trout, and various kinds of plants and grasses.
At his own expense, he is soon tc send to Nondugl a power-plant big enough to supply the whole statior with electric light and power.
He is also sending a loom, where with the Nondugl wool can hi turned into blankets; and sawmil equipment, which will provide tim ber for home building.
Dr. Ernest Beaglehole, of Welling ton, the author of several book about the native people of th( Pacific Islands, left NZ in Octobe: to soend two months at the Inter national Labour Office at Geneva as a special consultant on nativ labour. He will continue the worl started by the secretariat at a con ference of experts on native labou held at La Paz, Bolivia, in Januarj this year. He will assist in organis ing a field working party to stud native life in some parts of Sout] America.