SOUTH PACIFIC COMMISSION

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29326, 4 October 1960, Page 21

SOUTH PACIFIC COMMISSION

Conference To Discuss Activities

Two training courses now being conducted in the British Solomon Islands for 36 Pacific Islanders from eight territories are among current activities of the South Pacific Commission that will be reviewed at a meeting opening at its headquarters in Noumea on Wednesday, October 12. It will be the twenty-first session of the commission.

The meeting is expected to last about 12 days. Representatives will attend from the six member nations—Australia, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Chairman for the session will be the senior commissioner for Australia, Mr D. McCarthy.

The commission’s training courses to be reviewed are those being conducted at the literature production training centre at Honiara for 12 trainees, and the course on boatbuilding, repairs, dnd engine maintenance that 24 islands are attending at Auki, on Malaito Island.

At the session, a general review will be made of the commission’s work in the region in the fields of plant introduction, rhinoceros beetle control, fisheries, literature promotion, education, aided selfhelp, health education, nutrition and diet and mosquito-borne diseases.