No Word Recently of Timber Case Hearing

Timber Case Hearing

THERE has been no further announce ment regarding the New Guinea “timber lease case,” which was to have come on for trial in Sydney in late July, and the hearing of which was post poned owing to the serious illness of Farrell, one of the accused.

As the matter is connected with the administration of Papua-New Guinea by Mr. E. J. Ward (Australian Minister for External Territories) there is keen public interest in the case, both in Australia and the Pacific Islands, There has been no indication of when Mr. Ward will make his frequently-post poned visit to the Territories. He has been there only once. The secretary of his Department (Mr. J. R. Halligan) is there at the present time.