Norfolk Island Affairs
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QUESTIONS about Norfolk Island have been asked in the Federal Parliament lately.
The Prime Minister told Mr. Rosevear that the Norfolk Island Advisory Council had unanimously recommended modifica tion of the recent newspaper ordinance, and that the matter was receiving con sideration.
The Prime Minister told Mr. Roland Green that while it was a fact that a visiting judge had stated that the Ad ministrator had made a very serious error of judgment, the judge had also stated that there was nothing to suggest that the Administrator had any other motive but that of doing his duty. The error had arisen because the Administrator had re ceived “something in the nature of a gar bled version of an ordinance and acted as if it was law.” There was no need for any further inquiry relating to Norfolk Island.
The New Guinea Bill, 1935, passed by the Federal Parliament, is merely a machinery measure to alter certain anomalies connected with the Legislative Council of New Guinea. The anomalies, which have to do with the appointment of deputies, etc., were not discovered until the system was put into operation.