Leasing of P-NG Native-
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Owned Land Suggested
From Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, May 28.
AT the May meeting of the Eastern Highlands Advisory Council at Goroka, New Guinea, members suggested the leasing of native-owned land.
Mr. Jim Leahy said leases for pastoral land should be granted for a minimum of 15 years, and that leasing would improve the land for the native owners.
Mr. A. Schindler of the Agricul tural Department, Aiyura, said that leasing for short term crops would also be useful.
Meanwhile at Port Moresby the Central District Advisory Council also discussed the possibility of de veloping native-owned land by a leasehold system.
The Rev. D. E. Ure urged that the legal aspect of leasing land should be more fully explained to native owners—if this was done there was a good prospect of un used native land being made avail able for development. He stressed that this would allow land to be used while preserving native owner ship.