M.P. Wanted
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Suggestion From New Guinea
A Miners’ Association Was
formed recently in the Morobe sec tion of New Guinea, to carry on an agi tation for a road to the coast, for re duced charges for essential commodities, and for a general reduction of costs all round; and, as a result of an alleged “unsatisfactory” interview with the Minister (Mr. Hughes) on June 6, a meeting of residents of Rabaul formed the Rabaul Business People’s and Pro perty Owners’ Association, to take action to protect their interests, espec ially in regard to the plan for the re moval of the capital.
The “Rabaul Times” points out that, already, there are other bodies of this kind in New Guinea, and their chief function seems to be to make urgent ap peals of one kind and another to the Supreme Governmental authority in Australia.
The newspaper says that what is really needed is a representative of the Pacific territories in the Commonwealth Parliament, so that the requests and pleas of the various interests and classes in the territories will not fall continu ally on the deaf ears of departmental bureaucrats, as has been the case in the past.