Papuan Association
p. 46 · Read in the full issue
Still on Warpath
HAVING gained little or no satisfaction from the present Government (re presented by External Territories Minister Ward) the Papuan Association of Brisbane has decided to try the other side of the political fence.
A telegram has been sent to Mr. Men zies—who the Association feels may have some barbs in his armoury they do not possess—asking him to inquire into the Government’s reasons for not restoring civil control. The telegram emphasised the fact that in other areas reoccupied by Allied Nations forces, civil administra tion naturally followed those forces.
A member of the Association speaking in Brisbane, recently, said that certain selected planters and their wives were being permitted to return to selected areas providing that the wives paid their own fares and freight. Apparently the Government intended to make all evacu ees pay their own fares when they returned to the Territories