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South Pacific Commission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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The fourth South Pacific Conference was held at Rabaul, New Britain, in the territory of Papua and New Guinea, from April 20 to May 13, 1959. Sixty-five delegates and advisers attended from sixteen Pacific territories and the Kingdom of Tonga. The Conference was divided into two standing committees, one dealing with social and health questions, and the other with matters affecting the economic welfare of the island peoples. For the second time in the history of the conferences, the delegates themselves elected the chairman and vice-chairman of each committee, but for the first time a woman was elected chairman of one of them, i.e., the social committee. The Conference proceedings were governed by a general committee, on which each of the six governments forming the membership of the South Pacific Commission was represented by a member of a territorial delegation; the chairman of the Conference, Mr. J. R. Halligan, Australia's Senior Commissioner on the South Pacific Commission, was the only European member of the general committee.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: III. Political and Regional Organizations
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International Organization , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , Autumn 1959 , pp. 662 - 663
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1959

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1 SPC Quarterly Bulletin, 07 1959 (Vol. 9, No. 3), p. 18–22, 58Google Scholar. For a summary of the third conference, see International Organization, Spring 1957 Vol. 11, No. 2), p. 396–397Google Scholar.

2 SPC Quarterly Bulletin, 07 1959 (Vol. 9, No. 3), p. 25, 66Google Scholar. For a summary of the ninth meeting, see International Organization, Spring 1959 (Vol. 13, No. 2), p. 349Google Scholar.