= ee nh ceived WHO fellowships for training outside the Territory. WHO visitors to the Territory this year included a consultant anesthesiologist, who visited Saipan to discuss training of Micronesian personnel in anesthesia, and the WHO representative in Taiwan, who conferred with Department of Public Health officials on the WHO program for 1970. A lecturer in social and preventive medicine from the Fiji School of Medicine discussed training for Territory students who plan to enter the Fiji Medical School. Regional Relations The United States is a member of the South Pacific Commission (SPC), an advisory and consultative body set up in 1947 by the governments then responsible for the administration of island territories in the South Pacific region. Present members are Australia, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Western Samoa. The SPC’s purposeis to advise participating governments on ways to improve the well-being of the people of the Pacific island territories in health, economics, and social matters. Each year the Trust Territory receives valuable assistance from the SPC’s varied programs. A Congress of Micronesia Representative from the Mariana Islands District was the Trust Territory’s delegate to the Seventh South Pacific Conference in Noumea, New Caledonia, in October 1967. He also served as an adviser to the U.S. delegation to the SPC’s 30th Session which followed the Conference. 12 Ark Plath rude 218 officer for social development, who conferred with Administration officials on SPC programs for fiscal year 1969; an SPC agriculturist whovisited the Mariana Islands and Ponape as a consultant on animal husbandry, pasture improvement, and atoll agricultural development; an oral English specialist who visited all districts to assist in training new Peace Corps Volunteers, and a rat control expert. Two SPC specialists came to Saipan to assist in a 2-week sanitation training course for 34 Trust Territory workers. The Second Trust Territory Land Management Conference, also held in Saipan, had the assistance of a land tenure consultant who reported on land tenure in relation to economic development. The SPC, in cooperation with the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, sponsored a fisheries training course in Palau which was attended by students from several SPC countries. Territorial representatives also participated in SPC-sponsored seminars and meetings outside the Terri- tory. The director of dental services attended a seminar on dental health in New Guinea; representatives of the Sanitation Division attended both a housing sanitation seminar in Niue, and a joint SPC/East-West Centersponsored Asian Pacific Interchange on Rodent Control in Honolulu; and three Micronesian women studied home economics at the SPC Commvnity Education Center in Fiji. Agricultural officials attended technical meetings on agricultural education in Noumea, on coconut production in Rangiroa, and on plant protection in American Samoa. Two Micronesians took a regional course in Cooperation and Business Methodsin Fiji. Part [J—Introduction * LENNIEEP IOe To date, 15 Micronesians have re- SPC visitors to the Territory during the year included the SPC executive nme nursing work in public health, in New Zealand.