29,000 Square Miles
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Reserved In Papua
RECENT letters from Port Moresby indicate that there is a good deal of strong feeling in Papua over the recent proclamation, by which 29,000 square miles of the Territory are specially re served for a large British concern. It is said there that the unexplored parts of Papua should be left open for develop ment by private enterprise, as has always been the case in the dominions of Great Britain.
No official statement has been made to explain the extraordinary step that has been taken to reserve so large an area of country—but it is believed that it is re lated in some way to a desire to conserve oil resources for the Imperial Government.