Administrative Policy
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Native ‘Co-Operatives'
Feature of Post-War Administrative Policy
IT is understood that two Aus tralian officials who recently visited Papua-New Guinea to inquire into the need, if any, for providing credit facilities for native enterprises—such as co-operatives and trading concerns—have sub mitted a report directly to the Minister for Territories, Mr.
Hasluck. They are Mr. G. L. Glee son, and Mr. A. C. McCarthy, of the staff of the Commonwealth Bank, Sydney.
Encouragement of native co operative societies, for trading, planting and the provision of transport, has become a marked feature of administrative policy in some of the South Pacific Terri tories since World War 11.
Such movements have been noted in the Cook Islands, Western Samoa, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Solomon Islands, Nauru and Papua- New Guinea. They appear to have gone hand-in-hand with discourage ment of enterprise by the big trading companies, which also has been a feature of administrative nolicy in some of the groups named.