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3 numerous people who, in le past 20 years, have concern at the way in i valuable history relating to Guinea in general, and New in in particular, has been >ecause of failure to place on i the memories of people who died, will be glad to know of ent development, number of well-known New in residents, on February 2, ded a public meeting at po under the chairmanship of Trevor Wilton, and formed Historical Society of New n, and adopted a constitution, following office-bearers then elected for 1957: ron—Mr. J. Thurston, sident—Mr. Max Lees. — Messrs. M. as and N. Duncan, i. Treasurer—Mr. A. Paige, i. Secretary—Mr. S. S. Smith, nmittee Members Mr. T.
Garrett, Mr. T. Wilton.
Mr. Max Lees first went to New Britain in 1921; and Messrs. M.
Thomas, N. Duncan and T. Garrett are members of families long established in the New Britain District.
The first meeting of the Society will be held in April and will be addressed by Mr. G. A. V. Stanley, who is visiting New Britain in connection with the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, on “The Earliest Explorers of New Guinea.”
Several members whose recollec tions go back to the early days of New Britain have been asked to prepare papers for the Society.
Persons interested in the history of New Guinea, and especially those who have anything to contri bute about New Britain, should write to Mr. S. S. Smith, honorary secretary of the Society, at Kokopo, New Guinea. • Dr. John N. Warner, senior geneticist at the experiment station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’
Association, said in Sydney this month that plans are now being made for the 10th Congress of the International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists, to be held in Hono lulu in May, 1959. Delegates from all sugar cane areas in the world, including Fiji, are expected to at tend.