Visit NZ Pacific Islands
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NZ Governor-General To Visit NZ Pacific Islands
Apia, Feb. 18.
THE Governor-General of New Zealand, Lieutenant-General Sir Willoughby Norrie, accom panied by Lady Norrie, Miss Rose mary Norrie and party will visit Western Samoa from May 29 to June 3, 1954.
The Vice-Regal Party will arrive by plane from Suva, and leave by plane for Aitutaki, where they will joint the cruiser Black Prince for a visit to the Cook Islands.
The Governor-General will attend the functions in celebration of Western Samoa’s Flag Raising Day
and the Queen’s Birthday on June 1 and 2.
It has been customary for each Governor-General of New Zealand to pay a visit to NZ’s Islands Terri tories during his term of office.
The National Science Foundation of Washington has awarded the Bishop Museum a grant of 30,000 dollars to continue its major re search programme on the insects of Micronesia. This is the first time that such a large-scale pro ject has been attempted in Pacific entomology, and it has great economic significance, as well as in the field of public health. Micro nesia is a potential reservoir of pests, whose invasion of adjoining lands could create new problems.