Trusteeship
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UN To Investigate Trusteeship Of New Guinea
THE United Nations General Assembly decided in Paris on November 18 to ■nt investigate Australia’s trusteeship of New Guinea. H This is due to Australia’s wish to amal gamate the administrations of Papua and New Guinea, and the fact that UN has accepted a recommendation by its Trus teeship committee that it should investi gate administrative unions effected by administering powers between their Trust territories and other colonies.
It is not stated what form the investi gation will take. Presumably a committee, similar to that which visited Western Samoa to determine that Territory’s claim for self-government, will go to New Guinea at some future date to make in vestigations at first hand.
Meanwhile, the Papua-New Guinea Bill, which is designed to make the Union formal, legal and effective (at present the whole arrangement is only “provisional”) is still before the Australian Parliament, and in its early stages. It is not now ex pected th£it any progress will be made with it until some time in 1949.