Two thousand miles and more from their homes in the Pacific Islands, a generation of young experts and administrators are in New Zealand on a long-term programme which should enable them to contribute to the social and economic advancement of their peoples.

There are 520 Pacific island students in New Zealand, of whom 153 are on scholarships provided by the New Zealand Government and the Administration of Western Samoa. 237 are sponsored by other governments, and 130 are students who have come privately. In an overtaxed education system, the absorbing of over 500 islands students (not to mention 360-odd from Asia) is cheerfully accepted by those concerned as a proper contribution to good niter-racial relations.