News In Pictures

THERE was an important development in the establishment of the Uni versity of the South Pacific in September when representatives from [?]arious Pacific Islands attended in Suva the first meeting of the interim council of the university. The university will start classes in Suva next yeaar in what was the old RNZAF station at Laucala Bay. Below, chairman of the council, Lord Morris, accepts a donation of £F5,000 for the university from Mr. B. M. Warden, manager of the Bank of New South Wales, Suva.

Above, Sir Norman Alexander, vice-chairman of the council, inspects a cheque for £F10,000 for the university from the CSR company and its subsidiary, South Pacific Sugar Mills Ltd. At left is Mr. Stuart Hermes, managing director in Fiji, and Mr. D. Slade.

Above, at a party in Sydney in October to celebrate the opening of new offices for Pan American Airways, nine entertainers from American Samoa gave a show.

Here, the Premier of NSW, Mr. R. W. Askin, clowns with four lovely girls from Pago, while Pulefano Lefolasa plays the guitar. At right, these three former pupils of the King George VI Memorial College at Honiara, in the Solomons, are now studying at Te Aute College, Hawkes Bay, NZ. They are, from left, Paul Hebala, of Santa Isabel, Albert Mahira, of Santa Ana, and Gena Te Kula, of Ranongga. All three have done well at sport and music in New Zealand and have formed themselves into a singing trio. They were photographed in the throne room of the old Legislative Council chamber in Wellington.

At a CSIRO fauna area near Canberra in October, 10 Papua- New Guinea Local Government council lors took an in terest in a kangaroo which was apparently looking for a fight.

The councillors were making a three-week

political education

tour of parts of Aus tralia, and are either presidents or vice presidents of their councils.

At the South

Pacific Conference

[?]resentatives from 17 Pacific territories and five [?]ropolitan governments attended the Seventh South Pacific Conference in Noumea in October. Above are [?] commissioners of four of the five metropolitan [?]ernments. They are (from left) C. Reseigh (Australia), Nettre (France), R. Q. Quentin-Baxter, (NZ) and J. Fairclough (UK). In the bottom picture (from left) [?] Richard Simete (Wallis and Futuna), Maxime Carlot [?]d Michael Ala (New Hebrides) and S. Langi Kavaliku [?]nga). In the picture at right are Benjamin T. [?]nglona (US Trust Territory) and Mrs. Taotafa Lutu [?]inall (American Samoa). Mrs. Aspinall, who is the [?]e of American Samoa's Governor, sat in as Samoan [?]resentative when the delegate failed to arrive be cause of transport difficulties.