Noted Anthropologist

Revisiting NG

From Our Own Correspondent.

Port Moresby, July 10.

rE well-known American anthro pologist and author, Dr.

Margaret Mead, is back in New Guinea. This makes her fourth anthropological visit to New Guinea, and this time she is going back to Manus, where she made her original study of New Guinea natives. That was around 20 years ago, and she then made a special study of the native children who to-day will be the adult population of the com munity.

Dr. Mead is being assisted in her present study by two other Ameri can anthropologists, Mr. and Mrs.

T. Schwartz, and the expedition is being financed by the American Museum of Natural History and a grant from Rockefeller Foundation.

The expense of such an expedition is now six times as great as on her first visit. However, the party is equipped with all the very latest type of recording equipment and other special gear for the work.

They plan to be at Manus for about six months, and will live in the village where she made her original study of the children, and gathered material for her first book, “Growing Up In New Guinea.” Since then she has written three other

books about New Guinea natives.

A new popular edition of her first book has just been published in the United States.

Dr. Mead is at present Associate Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural His tory, New York. She visited Aus tralia in 1951 as the guest of tiie Commonwealth Government on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Federation.

Encouraged by the success of the Coronation race meeting, big social event of the Coronation season at Nadi, Fiji, the Namaka Racing Club is holding a further meeting on August 1, Bank Holiday week-end.

Principal event will be the Johnny Walker Cup, presented by Sir Hugh Ragg, with £5O, £2O and £lO prizes for winning horses. The races are run over a straight course —an old road which connected a former fighter strip with the main Nadi air strips.