Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 July 1941Vol. XI, No. 12

New Australian Minister

p. 4 · Read in the full issue

Page 44

To Visit Territories

fTIHE new Minister for the Australian J. Territories (Mr. McDonald) accom panied by his private secretary (Mr.

Bathurst) and the secretary of the De partment (Mr. J. R. Halligan), will leave Sydney on Thursday, July 17, by aero plane, and make an official visit, extend ing over about three weeks, to the chief centres in Papua and New Guinea.

Canberra on the 11th instant advised that the Ministerial party would fly direct to Rabaul and spend about one week there; a week would be spent in the Morobe district of New Guinea; and the third week in Papua, with head quarters in Port Moresby. The party hopes to return to Sydney on August 4 or August 11.

An article about the new Minister is printed on page 46.

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