Inland New Guinea—"The
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Promised Land."
“rpHE promised land” was the description X of the vast, fertile plateaux in Central New Guinea given to members of the Legacy Club, Melbourne, by Mr. E. W. P.
Chinnery, Government Anthropologist in the Mandated Territory, in an address on February 1.
These huge plateaux, at more than 5.000 ft. above sea level, were inhabited by a very high type of native who cultivated the land and raised stock, he said. The country was dotted with beautifully laid out gardens, which were remarkable because the natives had never been in contact with civilisation.
The discovery of this land, which promised to be one of the great centres for tropical economics, had created a problem for Australia, because it was her duty to develop it, Mr. Chinnery add ed.
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