Brigadier Cleland

MANY New Guinea people were dis appointed when Brigadier Cleland failed to win the Fremantle seat, in West Australia, made vacant by the death of Prime Minister Curtin. Dur ing the time that Brigadier Cleland was the active executive head of the Produc tion Board, in Papua and New Guinea, he made many friends. He filled a diffi cult job with efficiency, tact, courage and honesty—qualities which are sadly needed in the Australian Parliament—and he was the one man who could ill be spared from the present militaristic set-up in New Guinea. Yet he was the first man to leave when the true-blue brass-hats settled in on the Territories.