Academic Survey of Australian Territories

Australian Territories

AN attempt to find some general prin ciples and a comprehensive plan in the present administration of Papua- New Guinea is made in an article, “Papua and Mandated New Guinea Today,” by Thomas Penberthy Fry, in the June issue of “Pacific Affairs,” a quarterly review published in New York.

Mr. Fry, who is senior lecturer at the Law School, in the University of Queens land, has written an impressive article, in which the ground has been surveyed with much thoroughness. Like most academicians, Mr. Fry finds much to praise in the plans of Mr. E. J. Ward, and the performances of Colonel J. K.

Murray. But even he, as a reasoning, logical man, has to admit that the rehab ilitation of European industries in the Territories is about the last thing Mr.

Ward has planned; and that, failing revenues from healthy industries, the elaborate plans made by Mr. Ward and his fellow-dreamers for the education, medical care and protection of the natives cannot be implemented except at enormous cost to the Australian taxpayer.

Mr. R. Katterns and Mr. H. Tattersall recently returned to Western Samoa, after war service abroad.