District Com’Rs
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Exchange Notes
Should be Model for S.
Pacific Governors
FFTEEN District Commissioners of Papua-New Guinea, the Acting Director of District Ser vices, and various other officials, met in Lae on September 28, at one of the periodical conferences when these men, responsible for district administration, exchange experi ences, pool information and discuss their numerous problems of the field. The Administrator, Brigadier D. M. Cleland, presided.
It is a matter for regret that the same sort of conference is not held, at intervals, by the Governors and Administrators responsible for thei 14 Territories which lie in the South.
Pacific Islands, between Dutch New 1 Guinea in the west, and Frenchs Oceania, in the east.
There is marked similarity be tween the problems which eachi handles; but the only means they' have of exchanging information andi experiences is the South Pacific: Commission. in comparison withi the DC Conference held at intervals in Papua-New Guinea, the South: Pacific Conference is restricted andf very formal.