Government Urged To Take
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Over Native Education.
THE establishment of an Administration of Native Affairs, which would cover the Commonwealth, Papua, and the Mandated Territories of New Guinea and Nauru, was suggested to the Minister for the Interior (Mr. McEwen) during an in terview in Sydney on February 5 by rep resentatives of the National Missionary Council.
It was contended by the deputation that the Government should definitely assume the obligation of educating the natives in the Territories, concentrating on the children. They declared that there should be initiated an after-school-age service which might apply to native affairs the principle of vocational training.
The representatives of the Council (Canon J. S. Needham, Rev. J. W. Bur ton, and Rev. J. W. Perrier) were sup ported by Dr. A. P, Elkin, Professor of Anthropology at the Sydney University.
Miss Lilian Caswell, of the New Guinea Mission, will return to her station at Wamira, Papua, by the “Montoro” which is due to leave Sydney on February 23.
Mrs. B. Harper, who works her own gold claim on the Wewak field, N.-W.
New Guinea, returned to the Territory by the “Macdhui” from Sydney on
February 2.