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New Guinea Border Patrol
IN the Australian Senate recently,, Senator Roy Kendall asked: “Will the: Minister consider the possibility of. increasing the Papua-New Guinea native* police force to such numbers as would! allow a patrol to be maintained on the borders of Dutch New Guinea, and thus: preclude possibility of infiltration and the: dissemination of adverse propaganda?
The following reply was given on behalt of the Minister: “The Police Force con sists of the Royal Papuan Constabulary, and the New Guinea Police Force. The numerical strength of the Force is de termined from time to time as may be necessary to ensure the maintenance ot law order and good government in aL. parts of the Territory.”
Which of course is not an answer at all —and a good example of the way in which the average Minister, no matter what may be his party colour, can dodgfl an attempt to get information to which the public is entitled.