National Parks For Papua-
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N. Guinea
a t the April meeting of the Queensland J\ Na tional Parks’ Association held in Brisbane, the president (Mr. Leahy) said that the Association would like to see certain areas set aside in New Guinea as National Parks Reserves, That territory, the speaker pointed out, possessed large areas of natural beauty, and afforded a life-long study for botanists, geologists and other scientists. no further time, the president said, should be lost in making the necessary re presentations to the Federal Government.
The suggestion, the president an nounced, would probably be discussed in Brisbane during May by the Australian and New Zealand Association for the ad vancement of science.