Will Meet
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P-Ng Legislative Ccl.
Twice Again This Year
PAPUA and New Guinea’s Legis lative Council will probably meet twice again in 1953 —in July, for about a week, and again in September or October for the Budget session. (This will closely follow the Budget Session of the Commonwealth Parliament).
These meeting dates were sug gested in the closing stages of the May session of the Council in Port Moresby, by the Administrator, Mr.
D. M. Cleland, who acts as the President of the Council.
Getting Quicker Canberra
Action
In a short closing speech, Mr.
Cleland said that he was not un mindful of a certain matter brought up during the session by private members —the apparent hamstringing of works and requisi tions in the Territory by inter-de partmental committees.
He said that he was doing his utmost, at Ministerial level, to have the whole thing simplified so that when the Commonwealth Govern ment granted the Territory so many millions, the spending of it should be left entirely to the Ad ministrator and his own Director of Works, without any further refer ence to Australia at all.