Likely
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Administrator Of
Papua
No Early Appointment Likely
THERE is no immediate prospect of an appointment being made to the vacant position of Administrator of Papua.
The Papua Bill, which was introduced into the Australian Parliament some months ago, and which is designed to bring the Papuan Administration somewhat into line with that of New Guinea, passed all stages on August 8.
Members took the opportunity to dis cuss Territory affairs with considerable vigour, and the Bill was strongly opposed by Mr. A. E. Green and others, on the ground that it tended to cen tralise the administrative machinery in Canberra, and make the Administrators of Papua and New Guinea complete “figureheads”.
The Minister in Charge (Mr. Nock> declared that the man who would be appointed to administer Papua would
With this issue of the ‘ P.I.M.”, accom panying all copies addressed to New Caledonia, New Hebrides and French Oceania, there has been circulated a special “Supplement*’, in French. It contains a report of the notable address to French Colonists, made in Port Vila, New Hebrides, by M. Sautot, Resident Commissioner, on July 22, and the full text of M. Santot’s radiogram, in French, to General de Gaulle. We have been glad to publish this supplement, for the information of our many French sub scribers, in the three Territories named : the statements of M. Sautot may be an encouragement to them, in the tragic hours through which their great nation is passing.