Education

Continuing, the speaker touched on the separate problems of certain islands. In all these South-west Pacific territories the native population was increasing; Samoa the most, New, Caledonia the least. The common problems of all the islands, despite their cultural and economic differences, are easy to find; health is perhaps the paramount one, although the easiest to solve. Education is a serious problem, in fact the missionaries found it necessary to translate the Bible into 324 dialects. It is surprising when we find that of New Guinea's 2,572 schools, only six are Government schools.