Smaller Than Pre-War
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P-Ng Native Labour Pool
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, April 25.
rpHE latest official figures on native A labour covers the month of February, and give a total of 51,351 in em ployment throughout the Territory. This was nearly 400 above the Januray total.
Details of the February returns are:— In private employment, Papua and New Guinea 35,827 Employed by Administration and Commonwealth, including the Police Force 15,524
For New Guinea: Total employed 35,600 Private employ ment 25,516 For Papua; Total employed . 15,7571 Private employment 10,311 (Before the Pacific war there were about 40,000 indentured native labourers employed in New Guinea and about 20,000 in Papua. These figures did not take non-indentured native labour into account.) John Finau, a Tongan pupil at Newing ton College, Sydney, rowed No. 5 in the College eight in the Head-of-the-River race on April 14.