PACIFIC SCIENCE CONGRESS

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27191, 7 November 1953, Page 3

PACIFIC SCIENCE CONGRESS

EIGHT NEW ZEALANDERS

TO ATTEND (New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, November 5. Eight New Zealand scientists, including the president of the Royal Socity of New Zealand and the directors of the four principal museums, will leave next week for the eighth Pacific science congress in Quezon City, Philippine Islands, from November 16 to November 28.

The congress—the last was held in New Zealand in 1949—wi1l discuss a wide field of scientific matters concerning the Pacific countries. According to the senior member of the New Zealand party (Dr. W. R. B. Oliver, president of the Royal Society of New Zealand), cultural and racial relationships will be among the most important matters discussed.

Others in the party will be Dr. R. A. Falla, director of the Dominion Museum, Dr. H. D. Skinner, director of the Otago Museum, Dr. G. Archey and Mr A. W. B. Powell, director and assistant director respectively of the Auckland Museum, and Dr. R. S. Duff, director of the Canterbury Museum.

Two Government scientists from the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research will be Mr J. Healy, Government volcanologist, and Mr H. S. • Gibbs, of the soil division of the department. Dr. Archey and Dr. Falla will go to the Philippines at the invitation of the congress itself. Mr Powell is being sent by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation on oceanographic work. After 14 days at the congress, most of the New Zealand delegates will spend a week on scientific excursions about the island of Luzon.