P-N. Guinea
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Development Afoot In P-N. Guinea
CO-ORDINATION of develop mental plans and activities in Papua-New Guinea is the purpose of a new Development Board which has just been announced in Port Moresby.
It will presumably fix priorities, allot materials and staff, and try to link such activities with the Canberra plan to encourage private enterprise in the territories.
Its first and most urgent job is to consider and earmark land suitable for Government-encouraged Euro pean settlement. That has been held up for years because Moresby would
not make the necessary decision about the land. The Board com prises: Messrs. D. M. Cleland, chair man; Government Secretary, S. A Lonergan; Director of District Sei vices, J. H. Jones; Director of Agr culture, R. E. P. Dwyer; Director c Forests, J. B. McAdam: and Secretan for Lands, P. Holmes.
The late Mrs. Mabel Strey Willoughby Tottenham of Suva whose death was r ported in March PIM. She was one the Colony’s best-known and most public spirited citizens.