To-Day’S Populations
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In The
S. Pacific Areas
iIfHEN the Fisheries Conference '» assembled last month in Noumea, tiere was placed before it the follow ig statement, officially compiled by le South Pacific Commission, show ig areas of all the Territories, and )-day’s estimates of population:
Official estimates of the population Australian (Trustee) New Guinea
vary widely. Above, the figure is 1,080,000. Australian Territories Minister Hasluck, the other day, gave his estimate as more than that.
Other recent estimates have been as high as 1,500,000 for Papua-New Guinea. Like Dutch New Guinea, also partly unexplored, it is largely guesswork.
Mr. Lou Graham, former part owner of the Alexander, wrecked at Aitutaki Island last year, left Auck land with Mrs. Graham by the May sailing of the Tofua on a holiday trip. Mr. Graham had just signed off the well-known Viti, where he has been serving as an engineer.
Students’ Interest in P-NG
AT the May meeting of the Oriental Languages Study Society in Brisbane after a language sketch by ex-RM of Papua, Sydney H, Chance on Motu grammar.
Senator Roy Kendall addressed a mixed audience of European and Asian students.
He spoke on present day affairs in P-NG and cleared up many points on which the majority were mis informed, The Senator was a very busy man at question-time.
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. K. Atkins of Rabaul, on May 16.
Popu- Area lation Sq. Miles
Ustralia
Nauru 3.500 8 Norfolk Is 1.140 13 New Guinea 1.080,000 93.000 Papua 373.000 90.540
Range
Fr. Oceania 56.000 1.449 N. Caledonia 68.000 7,000
Etherlands
New Guinea 1,000.000 164,090
Ew Zealand
Cook Is. (inc. Niue) 19,300 200 Tokelau Is 1,450 4 W. Samoa 84.000 1,130
Tfited Kingdom
Br. Solomon Is. .. 95,000 14,000 Fiji 295,000 7,000 Gilbert & Ellice 35.600 215 Tonga 41.000 269
Cited States
Am. Samoa 19,000 73 Guam 59.000 225 Micronesia 54,000 687
)Ndominium
Vew Hebrides 43,000 3,590