Rsl’S Realistic Approach
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To N. Guinea Problems
SOME important motions from the New Guinea branch of the Returned Soldiers’ League were taken to the organisation’s annual meeting in Hobart at the beginning of November by Mr.
George Whittaker, representing the NG Branch.
The NG Branch urged that care be taken in setting up a military organisa tion in New Guinea. The revived NGVR should be a training-ground for units of the native military force, and the greatest care should be taken in the set-up of the native units.
The Branch urged the early constitution of the Legislative Council; expedition in settling ex-servicemen in the Territories, and facilities for financing their enter prise; a more realistic policy in building a new European hospital at Lae; some early effort in restoring land titles lost in the war. It supported the Australian Government in opposing the transfer of Western New Guinea to Indonesia.