Praised by Captain Detzner

Australia’S Fine Work

In N. Guinea.

THE Mandates Commission of the League of Nations accepted Australia’s, report on the administration of New Guinea, and the discussion which followed its presentation was particularly favour able, said Mr. E. W. P. Chinnery on his arrival in Sydney from England recently.

Mr. Chinnery is Director of District Ser vices and Native Affairs in the Mandated Territory and was Australia’s representa tive at Geneva.

Captain Hermann Detzner, the German anthropologist and explorer, who was doing a geographical survey of German New Guinea at the outbreak of the war, and who eluded capture by fleeing into the wild and broken region near the border of Dutch New Guinea until the war was over, warmly praised the exploration work that has been done by Australian District Officers in the Territory. Rev. Father Kirschbaum, a Roman Catholic German missionary, who was in New Guinea for 30 years, was also loud in his praise of the fine work accomplished by the Adminis tration.

After the sitting of the Commission, Mr.

Chinnery went to London as an Australian delegate to the International Anthropolo gical Conference, which was attended by 11,000 delegates, including some of the world’s greatest anthropologists. Mr. F.

E. Williams, Government Anthropologist of Papua, was present, and he and Mr.

Chinnery each read three papers.

At this conference, also, Australia’s achievements in New Guinea were praised.