New Guinea’S Travelling Natives

Through various touring parties of young natives, New Guinea and Papua have been receiving a lot of publicity in recent months. The police unit of 25 men, recently taken to London by In spector Sinclair to march in the Queen’s Coronation procession, gained much atten tion from Australians and Australian news papers. They returned by air in June.

The above photograph is typical. It shows Papua-New Guinea’s four native delegates to the South Pacific Conference in Noumea being interviewed, on behalf of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, by Mr. Joseph Post, of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. They had heard a symphony orchestra for the first time.