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SPC visitors to the Territory during
the year included the SPC executive
officer for social development, who
conferred with Administration officials on SPC programsfor 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
Among
other
regional
contacts
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during the year, four Micr
eled to
trav
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leaders and
rnNauru at the invitation of the Gove
ence
pend
ment of Nauru, for the inde
ceremonies in January 1968. The
Fisheries Management biologist attended the Philippine-United States
Workshop on Fisheries and Ocean-
ography in Manila.
s like this
Hundreds of small single-side band radio
remote islands and atolls with district
one con nect
life
centers. These radios have helped save human
in emergencies.
assist in a 2-week sanitation tramuing
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 Territory. 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 Center-
sponsored Asian Pacific Interchange
on Rodent Control in Honolulu; and
three Micronesian women studied
home economics at the SPC Commu-
nity Education Center in Fiji. Agri-
cultural 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 [1]—Introduction
Fiscal Year 1968
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