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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1953Vol. XXIII, No. 11

There Is Progress

p. 115 · Read in the full issue

[?]Utch N. Guinea

HWO concerns have applied to the Dutch Government for ex ploration and exploitation con 5-ssions for chromium and nickel Netherlands New Guinea. lA ship repairing yard is being Itablished at ManoKwari. The lasting trade will be expanded. A tncession has been granted to LM (Royal Dutch Airlines) for the Hand aviation.

Queen Salote, of Tonga, was irmly received in London when, tending the .Coronation, she made ir first visit to Britain. She spent ir first day in London at Lords, itching a cricket match; and she d an honoured place in the conation ceremonials. She was a tie indignant with the newspapers 10 said she was 6 ft 3 in. tall, tually, she is 5 ft 11 in.; and that not tall for Polynesian nobility, tich usually is built on high and issive lines.