To Study Samoan Forests

MR. Stuart Cameron. B.Sc., a lecturer in geography at Auck land University, is to carry out a year’s study of the forests of Western Samoa under a grant pro vided jointly by the University of Hawaii. Bishop Museum, and Yale University of the United States.

Mr. Cameron is a graduate of Auckland University and was on the staff of the State Forest Service for a number of years until World War 11, when on behalf of the Australian and Amercian military authorities in the Pacific zone he was seconded to the Solomons and New Guinea to locate stands of timber suitable for military con struction in those areas.

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Mr. C am er°n s research is likely to be integrated with the geographical survey of Western Samoa ?ur?entfy ?TnfvovcS arried out by Auckland University men under Professor K Cumberland.

Diver Bill Tebb, who has been diving for the Australian Govern ment at Port Moresby for three and a half years, arrived in Sydney for three months’ leave late July. He travelled on the Bulolo, of which he has very fond memories. He served with the RN during the war on two-man submarines, and he moored one of these alongside a ship off the Normandy coast on D- Day. The ship was the Bulolo