Carnegie Hrant For

Survey Of Samoas

rHE Department of Geography at Auckland University College, NZ, has recently been made a rant by the Carnegie Social cience Research Grant Committee ir the purpose of appraising the ature and extent of the resources f Samoa, presumably, Western and merican.

The project will involve, among ther things, a field survey of the esources, population, economy and mtemporary land-use practices oth indigenous and introduced. A etailed investigation will be made f some of the more serious pro lems of commercial agriculture ndertaken in tropical conditions nd other social, economic and olitical problems arising from the 'ansition from traditional subsist nce to a modern commercial Bonomy.

An attempt will be made to find Jlutions for these problems and to lake proposals for the most efficient mg-term use and conservation of amoan resources.

The Auckland University College department of Geography Samoan urvey, as the research organisa on will be called, will be headed y Professor Kenneth B. Cumber md, MA (London), DSc, who is Iready well known for his interest i Pacific affairs. Members of the urvey team have specialised in md use survey, resource evalua lon, economic climatology and hysical geography. The present taff of AUCDGSS, other than the director, will be James W. Fox, BA

(Lond), Leslie Curry, BA (Dunelm), MA (Johns Hopkins), Bryan H.

Farrell, BA, MA (Washington) and William J. Brockie, MA (Edin.).

The research programme is planned to commence in December, 1953, when Mr. Leslie Curry will undertake a preliminary survey of the physical geography of the islands. In the summer of 1954, a concerted effort will be made to carry out detailed mapping and in terpretation and for this work it is expected that four members of the Survey will be in Samoa. if Miss Mackie McCown, BA, BSc, of Levuka, returned to Fiji recently after graduating Bachelor of Nurs ing at Johns Hopkins University,

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