To Show Natives How
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to Catch Fish
MR. H. VAN PEL, a fisherman of wide experience in Atlantic, North Sea, and Indonesian fisheries, has been appointed to the staff of the South Pacific Com mission at Noumea with the object of “encouraging more up-to-date methods of catching, processing and marketing fish” in the Islands.
He will work, in general, along the lines recommended by a panel of fishery experts who met in Noumea in 1952 under the Com mission's auspices.
If Dr. J. W. Davidson, a leading authority on South Pacific Affairs, spent a week in Fiji on his way back from Western Samoa to the Australian National University at Canberra.