Ng Brewery

Ims Attack

ON

THE London Missionary Society

has gone on the warpatl; against the decision of the Papua-New Guinea Administration to grant a licence to a New Guinee company to brew beer in Papus This is Mr. Joe Bourke’s new ene terprise, based on the Laloki River The Rev. A. M. Paterson, on be; half of the Society in Australia, has asked the Minister for Territories Mr. Hasluck, to receive a depute tion to ask for cancellation a; licence. He said it would be irrr possible to keep liquor from tlr natives when it is brewed in the! midst, and they might run amok.: “We want to safeguard thr natives against something that has proved a degrading weakness i;i ourselves,” said Mr. Paterson.