SPC Research Council

In Session

Noumea, May 31.

THE scientific side of many of the

projects sponsored by the South

Pacific Commission formed most of the important agenda of the Commission’s Research Council, when it assembled at SPC head quarters in Noumea at the end of May for its Sixth meeting. Dr.

Bugnicourt, Research Director of the Institut Francais de I’Oceanie,

New Caledonia, formally opened the

meeting, and was elected chairman for the duration. Following are the names of those in attendance: COLONEL AUGERE. Director of the New Caledonian Health Service.

PROFESSOR BALDWIN (representing Dr. J. Gunther), Professor of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health and Trop. Med., Sydney.

DR. J. BRIERDRAGER. Director of Public Health Dept., Netherlands New Guinea.

DR. FRED BRENNEMAN, Director of Public Health, American Samoa.

DR. J. M. CRUICKSHANK, Inspector- General, South Pacific Health Service and Director of Medical Services, Fiji.

MR. F. R. DAVIES, Officer for Islands Education, NZ Dept, of Education.

MR. D. R. A. EDEN, General Manager, NZ Reparations Estates, Western Samoa.

DR, CH. GRADER, Director, Bureau of Native Affairs, Netherlands New Guinea.

MR. W. C. GROVES, Director of Edu cation, Papua and New Guinea.

MR. J. C. GUIART, Ethnologue of Institut francais de L’Oceanie, New Caledonia.

DR. JOHN HAITEMA, Director of Edu cation, Guam.

DR. A. H. KROON, Executive Officer for Economic Development, South Pacific Commission.

DR. T. C. LONIE, Director of Health, Western Samoa.

Professor Emile Massal. Executive

Officer for Health, South Pacific Com mission.

DR. E. M. OJALA, Deputy Chairman, Research Council, South Pacific Com mission.

MR. B. E. V. PARHAM, OBE, Deputy Director of Agriculture, Fiji.

DR. A. PERK, Director of Economic Affairs, Netherlands New Guinea.