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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1956Vol. XXVI, No.8

Some Recent SPC Publications

p. 71 · Read in the full issue

SINCE its establishment in 1947 the South Pacific Commission has produced many technical papers as solid references in com pact form for the planter, the ad ministrator, and the educationalist in the South Pacific.

Among those just to hand are the following: Educational Aspects of Community Development, a survey of fundamental aspects of com munity education by the Senior Social Welfare officer of the Papua and New Guinea Department of Education, paper 74, 4/-; Catalogue of the South Pacific Commission Co operative Library, paper 75 5 -a Bibliography of Tropical Housing paper 76, 2 /-; A List of Insect Pests Recorded in South Pacific Terri tories, paper 79, in English and French, 6/- or 55 frs. CFP; and the Distribution of Mosquitoes in the South Pacific Region, paper 86, in English and French, 8 - or 75 frs

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r Mr. M. Hoskins, ARIA, Newcastle architect, left on the Polynesie on January 20 for New Caledonia and New Hebrides. This was his 54th round trip, and it is claimed to be a record for an Australian-born person. Mr. Hoskins said he was making the round trip to survey progress on a number of projects,

now under way in the New Hebrides and New Caledonia, which are be ing directed by his organisation, i 4 J 2 e Bishop, 14, promising Aitutaki student attending the Rarotonga Tereora College, was accidentally killed in a shooting accident while hunting wild fowl near Ruatonga in January.