G&E Co-op. Conferein

EIGHTEEN Co-operative Sociea managers and five other s members met in conference: Tarawa recently, to discuss operative affairs and to underg three weeks training course.

The conference was opened! the Acting Resident Commissioo Mr. F. N. Pusinelli, MC, the I ceedings being recorded and II broadcast by the local rr station.

The training course wb followed the opening inclu lectures on such subjects as operative history, principles present-day practice, co-operas and Colony law. Films and strips supplied by the South Pa* Commission formed an interesa and useful part of the course..

Native co-operatives are probe better established in the Gill and Ellice Islands Colony than any other Pacific area, thco actual trade involved would equal that of the rapidly expamj New Guinea co-operative socies