Plans For New Guinea

Health And Education

rE Australian Minister for External Territories (Mr. Ward) conferred in Sydney on July 1 with 15 mission aries on native health and education problems in New Guinea.

The Minister said that the mission aries had proved very co-operative and helpful, and that later there would be more talks with them.

The New Guinea Director of Public Health (Dr. J. T. Gunther) and the Director of Education (Mr. W. C. Groves) were at the conference, he said.

Mr. Ward added that as soon as the Government had formulated definite plans for New Guinea health and education, those plans would be announced from Canberra. This conference had been con vened to get the missionaries’ views on the Government’s proposals.

Mr. R. H. Hunt, who has been United States Vice-Consul in Fiji since 1945, has been transferred to Melbourne. He left Fiji by air In mid- June.