WESTERN SAMOAN LAND PROBLEMS
STUDY BY UNIVERSITY GROUP (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND. March 7. Western Samoa’s problems of land use in relation to the trust territory’s growing population are to be investigated in full by a team from the Auckland University College’s department of geography. The team will be headed by Professor K. B. Cumberland. It will be financed by a grant from the Carnegie Social Science Research Fund of the University of New j Zealand. The four team members are Messrs B. H. Farrell, J. W. Fox, W. J. Brockie, and G. Louthwaite. Another member of the University department Mr S. S. Cameron, will leave for Western Samoa on Sunday for a year’s investigation in separate but related work—the detailed mapping of forests and the assessment of their economic value. Mr Cameron will make his study with the aid of a Pacific research fellowship sponsored by Yale University, the Bishop Museum, of Honolulu, and the Peabody Museum, of Salem.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27602, 8 March 1955, Page 14
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