The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1955Vol. XXV, No. 6

Another Spc Specialist

p. 118 · Read in the full issue

For Eastern Samoa

AT the invitation of the Governor of Eastern Samoa the South Pacific Commission’s consultant on socio-economic problems, Pro fessor H. Belshaw, of Victoria Uni versity College, Wellington, New Zealand, left Auckland for Pago Pago.

He will help in making long-term plans for the social and economic development of the Manu’a dis trict where the Administration is engaged in a project to build the first docking facilities and roads.

Later, he will advise the Admin istration on methods by which the energies of the local community

might be directed towards other i portant development activities.

During the past four years SPC has been associated with p grammes of community organi tion and development in Fiji, Paj and New Guinea, Netherlands IS Guinea, the Cook Islands, £ Koror in the US Trust Territory Micronesia. flJoeli Kaumaitotoya, first Fij to qualify for the theory section the Post Master General’s F Class Certificate in Radio T( graphy and Telephony, has gone New Zealand to complete cert sections of the examination.