Naturalisation In Ng
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FEDERAL Parliament’s next session is to include a Bill dealing with naturalisation benefits for New Guinea residents. A measure, by the way, long overdue for many Territorians in the past have been Stateless unless they could be called League of Nationites. The mea sure also indicates the Australian Govern ment is tightening its hold on the Terri tory, whatever else may happen.
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Mr. €. I. H. Campbell, who has done a remarkably good job as the representative of the War Damage Commission in New Britain and district, has resigned from the Commission, in order that he may return to his own plantation of Raua, in Buka. He will be succeeded in Rabaul by Mr. Smith, formerly a lieutenant in ANGAU. Very good work also is being done, on behalf of both the Commission and the planters, by the two Inspectors, Arthur Richards and Alistair Maclean.
Sir Walter Carpenter, head of W. R.
Carpenter & Co., Ltd., will return to Syd ney, for a few months, in September. His son, Mr. R. B. Carpenter, will remain in Canada during his absence.