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Science Congress In

Papua-N. Guinea

To Arrive By Liner And Live Aboard

AN ingenious plan, under which provision will be made for a meeting, to be held in Papua and New Guinea, in 1960, of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, was discussed recently at a meeting in Port Moresby, called by Mr. G. A. V. Stanley. (PIM, March, p. 151).

The original British Association was formed in England in 1831; and the Australasian Association —on exactly the same lines, and for the same purpose—came into being in 1888. Since then, general meetings or conferences have been held, usually at intervals of two years, in every large city in Australia and New Zealand.

The next is under organisation, to take place in Adelaide in 1958; and it now is proposed that the 1960 meeting shall be held in Papua and New Guinea.

Accommodation of so large an assembly calls for the facilities of a city—more than are provided in Port Moresby or Rabaul.

It is proposed that the Association

shall charter a suitable overseas liner, capable of carrying up to 1,000 people; and that, during the conference, she shall lie off the ports of Moresby, Samarai, Madang, Lorengau, Lae, Rabaul.

Various practical difficulties— such as the provision of up to 100 tons of water per day—would have to be ironed out; but Dr. Stanley told his audience that he thought it could be done, if the ANZAAS would approve.

A series of motions moved by Mr.

George Walmsley, Dr. Gunther, Mr. W. C. Groves, Dr. Eric Wright, Mr. J. McAdam, Dr. Todd, and others, formed a Papua and New Guinea branch of the Association: appointed office-bearers; and put

into shape the machinery for the functioning of the branch, and advancing the request that the 1960 general meeting be held in the Territory. It was announced that “Mr. Justice Gore, of Port Moresby, and Mr. Dudley Jones, of Rabaul, will be at the head of the prelim inary organisation”. t First heads to fall under the economic axe in Noumea are those of foreign boxers. Because of the lack of foreign exchange no more foreign boxers will come here and contracts that were being negotiated in Suva and Sydney will be abandoned. Ricardo Marcos who was to fight again in Noumea will return to Australia.