PACIFIC RELATIONS

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 158, 6 July 1935, Page 7

PACIFIC RELATIONS

INSTITUTE'S WORK.

SECRETARY TO VISIT N.Z.

TOUR or TEN" COUNTRIES.

A tour of the ten member countries of the Institute of Pacific Relations is being made by Mr. "Edward C. Carter, secretary-general of the institute, who will arrive in Wellington on Tuesday. Since he took office as secretary-general in August, 1933, Mr. Carter has made two trips round the world'. . The countries represented in the institute are Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Soviet Russia, China, Japan, the Philippines, Canada and the United States. Mr. Carter's purpose in visiting these countries is to meet leading and repi esentative citizens to, exchange information, and also to stimulate interest in the institute's activities in each membership country. He is accompanied by his wife and two secretaries, Miss Elsie Fairfax-Cholmondeley, of London, and Miss Kate Mitchell, of New York. The New Zealand group has always been handicapped by lack of finance, but in spite of this it has played an important part in the institute s activities, and it has been represented at the five biennial conferences by a number of representative and able men. At the last conference held at Banff in 1933, the Hon. W. Downie Stewart, Mr. P. Milner, C.M.G., Mr. Walter Nash, M.P., and Mr. H. F. von Haast were among the New Zealand delegates. New Zealanders have figured more prominently among the research staff members of the institute. For a number of years Dr. J. B. Condliffe, one-time professor of economics at Canterbury College, was research secretary of the institute. On his appointment to the Economic Secretariat of the League of Nations,- his place was taken by another New Zealander, Dr. W. L. 'Holland, also -of Cliristchurch. Another New Zealander, IV, Felix Keesing, under tlie direction

[of the Institute of Pacific Relations, has recently published a valuable anthropological study on Samoa, and within the next few weeks there will be published a work on "Land Utilisation in New Zealand," by Professor H. Belsliaw, at present the economic adviser to the Minister of Finance.

In New Zealand the institute -president is Sir James Allen, and with him have been most prominently associated Mr. W. Nash, Mr. W. B. Matheson and the late secretary of the New Zealand branch, Dr. G. H. Scholefield, Parliamentary librarian.