In Papua-NG
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Back-to-School Movement In Papua-NG Australian Taxpayers Foot The Bill
Letter to the Editor DON’T the Australian taxpayers kick about anything, these days? Or don’t they know that they are sup porting the Australian School of Pacific Administration and all who attend it?
If I may be pardoned for mentioning the good old days, I would like to point out that before the New Order hit us, it was considered sufficient if cadet officers of the district Services department attended after a period of probation in the Territory a course at Sydney University.
Now all and sundry attend “The School.” Mind you. it is an ill wind that blows nowhere, and three to six months in Sydney with all expenses paid are not to be lightly turned down. Some of my friends in Civil Administration actually enjoy it.
Somewhere between 40 and 50 “students” have just completed their course and have returned to this land of coons and coconuts to relax after their strenuous studies. They incluude Assis tant District Officers, clerks and even typists. No totalitarian state ever went further in indoctrinating its adherents.
I am, etc.,
“Dumbell”
Madang, October 30, 1947.