Raining For Territories

Administration

From Our Own Correspondent

Moresby, Jan. 26.

rHE time is drawing near when at least the major towns of Fapua-New Guinea should ave local government, said the icting Administrator (Mr. D. M.

Jleland) in a public address ecently. Very good work was being one by the Town and District Ad isory Councils, but the time was pproaching when the responsi- Uity of local government in the irger centres should be vested in le citizens themselves, and not in le Administration.

Reviewing the growth of public •rvice organisations over the cen iries, he contrasted the various irms of Administration in Britain, uropean countries and United tates. He said it was essential that le Territory Public Service should icome a Territorial and career irvice, and it was the intention of le Minister for Territories, Mr. asluck, to create, develop and eter a service which would be •e-eminent for its loyalty, im irtiality and efficiency- EDITORIAL NOTE. —It was the me Minister (Mr. Hasluck) who cently appointed a military officer the Administratorship of Norfolk land, although the position (a ill-paid sinecure) should have ne, as a matter of right and stice, to any one of a dozen well ained and capable men of the ipua-New Guinea public service.

recent unconventional snapshot by in Mansell) of Miss Moyra MacDonald, Apia, who made quite a success of her [?]t in the recent filming of “Return Paradise” in Western Samoa. She reported to be booked for Hollywood, follow a screen career.