Conference Site
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Noumea To Be Next Conference Site
Noumea, New Caledonia, headquarters of the South Pacific Commission, is to be the site of the next South Pacific Con ference. This will be held in 1967—n0t in three years’ time, as has been the practice.
The present plan is that the Noumea conference will be on a smaller scale than the Lae con ference and the five that preceded it, and that delegates will com prise members of the committee on the Commission’s work pro gramme for 1968-69.
The next conference after that will be held in 1969, probably in Guam, which has offered to be the host territory.
The 1969 conference, a full scale affair, may be the first South Seas regional council meeting, along the lines mooted at Lae. Any earlier conference of this kind seems unlikely as it would certainly take at least two years for the present member governments of the Commission to agree to, and pass the neces sary legislation on, any plan to admit all the South Pacific ter ritories as members of the SPC.