Significance of SP
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New Guinea Is
Being Prepared
Significance of SP Conference in
Accommodation arrangements are being made in Rabaul for the 70 01 more delegates, plus officials, from 19 South Pacific Territories, who will assemble there in April for the Fourth South Pacific Con ference.
THESE arrangements will be re viewed at the September- October session of the South Pacific Commission, which begins at Noumea on September 26.
It is hoped that the Commission will have the co-operation of the Papua-New Guinea Administration in giving the delegates opportunities of seeing the two other important sections of P-NG —namely, Papua and the New Guinea Highlands.
Although Papua and New Guinea constitute the biggest single unit in the large number of Territories which are represented in the South Pacific Commission, it often has appeared that there is not enough community of interest between P-NG and the other big groups—and especially the archipelagoes oi Polynesia. The assembly of the Fourth Con ference in Rabaul may help to break down some of the barriers between Western Melanesia and Polynesia.