SPC’s budget contribution changes
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Australia and New Zealand will pay more, and the seven other participating governments less, into the 1978 operating budget of the South Pacific Commission.
Changes in the assessed contributions to the budget were agreed at the 1977 meeting of the SPC planning and evaluation committee which met in Noumea in May. The 1978 budget was fixed at slightly more than SA3 million, up about 15% over the 1977 figure.
The committee was pleased to note that the governments of Australia, France, New Zealand and the United Kingdom had agreed to contribute generously to SPC’s skipjack tuna survey and assessment programme over the next three years. Help is also expected from Japan and the United States.
Themes for discussion at the next South Pacific Conference to be held in Pago Pago, American Samoa, September 23-30, will be "Recent developments in international consideration of the Law of the Sea and their implications for South Pacific countries and territories”, and "A Pacific approach to rural development”. Sub-themes in the latter discussion will be “Appropriate technology for development”, “Education for rural life”, and “Employment creation in the rural sector”.