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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 November 1951Vol. XXII, No. 4

[?] Australian State

p. 105 · Read in the full issue

Vicemen Want

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the annual congress of the Returned Servicemen’s League of Australia, which opened on ber 29, in Adelaide, the dent of the Papua-New Guinea ch, Mr. G. K. Whittaker, 1 that the League should sor a move that Australia’s ic Territories should become ralia’s Seventh State. . Whittaker said his branch /ed that New Guinea should amoved from the care of the Trusteeship Council, and d permanently in the care of •alia. Then, to its great ad ige, it could have direct sentation in the Common -