Papuan Ordinance

Offences On White

Women

From Our Canberra Correspondent

Canberra, Dec. 10.

A COPY of an ordinance recently issued by the Lieutenant-Governor of Papua, Sir Hubert Murray, was laid on the table of the House of Representatives to-day, as follows: (1) This ordinance may be cited as the Native Offenders’ Exclusion Ordinance. (2) No native convicted of any offence of an indecent nature against a white woman or girl shall upon discharge from custody come or remain within the boundaries of any town. ———