Reference In Parliament
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SPEAKING in the House of Representa tives, Canberra, on December 3, Mr.
T. W. White, MP, said that a man named Leighton, who had directed elec tion campaigns for the Minister for Ex
ternal Territories (Mr. Ward), was the “most active political propagandist in Port Moresby to-day.” Leighton had held political meetings which natives attended, and was regarded in Port Moresby as an exponent of the extreme Left.
Mr. Ward denied that Leighton was a Communist. He said that Leighton had been a member of his campaign com mittee, but had not directed his cam paign.
Mr. A. E. Edwards, DCM, died in hospi tal in Tahiti on October 13.
Establishments Ballande, of Bordeaux, the biggest Noumea trading, mining and shipping company, which usually works in with the Nickel Co. and which has ex tensive interests in the New Hebrides, is advertising, in Noumea, a debenture issue of sixty million francs in thousand franc bonds, rate of interest to be at 5 per cent. They will be redeemable January 1, 1948.
Mr. John W. Cox, of the New Guinea Public Works staff, is on furlough in Sydney. He is OIC, roads and bridges New Ireland.