Another Hopeless Dawn

The Australian Minister for Pacific Territories (Mr. Ward) is rising over the eastern horizon— he is now on his way back to King’s Cross, Sydney, from a visit to the United States, Canada, Ireland, Geneva, Germany, Western Europe generally, and the United Kingdom. He was accom panied by Mrs. Ward, a private secretary, various officials, and Senator Stan Amour (who created front-page news by being put off the ANA plane at San Francisco); and it is reported that a good time was bad by all. But the harassed producers of New Guinea and Papua, enjoying none of the benefits which are being lavished upon the natives, regard the rising of this particular sun with no enthusiasm.

According to his last-published schedule, the Minister for the Australian Territories, author of the plan for making a proud and self-sufficient planter out of Fuzzy-wuzzy, is due in Sydney on September 28.

Cartoon by Gill.