"Dominion" Wanted
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Mr. W. Herbest-Hughes, Of Papua,
writes:— The plan of the New Zealand Deputy Leader (Mr. Nash) for a Pacific Islands Federation is unworkable. Such a Federation could not be governed by a trusteeship of nations with widely dif fering viewpoints. We have before us the example of the condominium of the
New Hebrides, where only two nations are concerned.
We residents must have an Islands Dominion, working out our own destiny in the islands concerned, not in capital cities remote in distance, ideas and sympathy. It is not a new idea. A writer in the “Pacific Islands Monthly” of January, 1943, called for a Confedera tion of South-west Pacific Islands.