Evacuees To Meet

Plea for Unity

THE quarterly meeting of members of the Pacific Territories Association will be held in the Teachers’

Federation Hall, seventh floor, 166 Phillip Street, Sydney, on Tuesday, September 7, at 8 p.m. All evacuees are urgently requested to attend.

The executive is now trying to unite all New Guinea people in one solid front.

Eight separate New Guinea organisations are known to exist in Australia—four or five of them in Sydney—and all have the same basic aims: to preserve New Guinea contacts here in Australia and to lay the foundations of post-war rehabilitation in New Guinea. It is obvious that if these several organisations throw their weight in behind some central body which will voice their correlated ideas, they are much more likely to be heard by the Powers-that-be in Canberra. The PTA Executive will co-operate with any body for the common good.

Representatives of all organisations interested in New Guinea, present or future, are invited to attend the Associa tion meeting on September 7, when co operation and a common front will be discussed further.

Evacuees should realise that the time to unite is NOW —not at some time in the future when all means of fighting back may have been stripped from them by unsympathetic bureaucrats and the pin-headed products of the political machines.

Production Control Board

The Association has received official word that there has been, as yet, no Agricultural Member appointed to the Australian New Guinea Production Con trol Board. It is known, however, that Mr. Tom Nevitt, formerly manager of the British New Guinea Development Com pany, and one of the planters who returned to Papua in July, has been co opted by the Board as technical adviser.