South Pacific Commission and South Pacific Air Transport Council 601

SOUTH PACIFIC AIR TRANSPORT COUNCIL

The Council is ancillary to the Commonwealth Air Transport Council (q.v.) and was set up as a result of recommendations of a Civil Aviation Conference held in Wellington in 1946. The Permanent Chairman of the Council is the Australian Minister responsible for Civil Aviation and the Secretariat is in Melbourne, Australia. Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji are members of the Council while the Western Pacific High Commission is represented by Britain; the Constitution provides for associate membership which has been extended to Tonga and Nauru. The Council normally meets every two years. Council has met nineteen times since it was formed, and has been largely concerned with the development of Nadi (Nandi) airport in Fiji. The next meeting of the Council will probably be held in 1971.

PART VIII

COMMITTees, socieTIES AND ORGANISATIONS IN BRITAIN CONCERNED WITH THE COMMONWEALTH

COMMITTEES, SOCIETIES AND

ORGANISATIONS IN BRITAIN

CONCERNED WITH THE COMMONWEALTH

AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF
THE UNITED KINGDOM

c/o Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham,
P.O. Box 363, Birmingham 15

The Association was founded in 1963 with the aim of advancing academic studies relating to Africa by providing facilities for the interchange of information and ideas. It publishes a bulletin three times a year and holds interdisciplinary conferences and symposia. Its members mostly hold teaching or research appointments in universities or other institutions of higher education in the United Kingdom.

ANGLO SIERRA LEONEAN SOCIETY
2 Charterhouse Street, London E.C.1 (01-353 1577)
Chief Patron: The Right Hon. Viscount Boyd of Merton, CH
President: Sir George Beresford-Stooke, KCMG
Vice-Presidents: Sir Maurice Dorman, GCMG, GCVO;
The Hon. Mr. Justice G. E. Dove-Edwin; Dr. M. C. F. Easmon, OBE;
Dr W. H. Fitzjohn; The Right Rev. Dr J. L. C. Horstead, CMG, CBE;
Dr. R. E. Kelfa-Caulker; Dr. D. S. H. W. Nicol, CMG;

J. S. Fenton, CMG, OBE; C. P. McConnachie, CBE; J. Johnson, MP
Chairman: D. A. R. Richardson

Hon. Secretary: R. A. Jones

The Anglo Sierra Leonean Society was formed in London in August 1962. Its objects are to foster friendship and understanding between citizens of Great Britain and of Sierra Leone and to assist in the encouragement of cultural, literary and social relations between the two countries. The Society has a Council of mixed members comprising citizens of the United Kingdom and of Sierra Leone.

Membership is open to all citizens of the United Kingdom and Sierra Leone and to any other nationals interested in Sierra Leone.