Before Government

Rsl To Bring P-Ng Needs

From Our Brisbane Correspondent RETURNING to Brisbane recently after a 10-day tour of New Guinea and!

Papua, the Returned League Federal President (Mr. G. W.

Holland) said that New Guinea and!

Papua residents felt that they were “cry ing in the wilderness” in their efforts toe

have their country developed and de fended.

A new State Branch of the League has been set up in the Territory, with head quarters at Lae, and nine sub-branches had been formed throughout New Guinea.

Papua and Bougainville.

Mr. Holland said that the 2,000 mem bers of those branches had been asked to draw up a blue print of what they thought was required to meet develop ment and defence needs so that it could be put before the right authorities.

Other points worrying Europeans in the Territory, said the President, were com plications when trying to buy land; the number of Asiatics, especially Chinese, in the islands; and the possible infiltra tion of Indonesians into New Guinea.