Guinea Natives
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New Plan For Teaching N.
A MESSAGE from Darwin, published in Sydney “Sun” on April 7, said that Dr. A. N. K. Daubach will go to New Guinea later this month to con duct a literacy campaign. He is now in India, where he has been teaching many of India’s illiterate millions.
Dr. Laubach is special counsellor of the World Literacy and Christian Literature movement in New York. He will teach New Guinea natives to read and write.
His method is to reduce the native language to a phonetic alphabet and then teach it. He expects that every native he teaches will teach another as he is learning himself. .
Dr. Laubach. who will be accompanied by a staff of three, will visit only Darwin and Brisbane in Australia before going to Lae. He is due in Darwin on April 18 and will meet all Northern Territory Christian missionaries in conference there and explain his methods to them.