Miss Virginia Skipps and Indilla Ahmu,
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Growth of Native Co-ops in P-NG
UNDER strong official encourage ment, the membership of native co-operative societies operating in Papua and New Guinea has grown in three years from 8,556 to 37,818 at the end of June, 1953. Annual turnover, in the same period, grew from £62,301 to £381,000; and subscribed capital from £13,000 to £120,800.
The Australian Territories Minister, reporting these figures, said that, a special branch of the Administration is helping the natives to organise and supervise their societies, and is training natives to hold office in them
som e Islands travellers to New Zealand m August, top to bottom:— Mr. E. F. Murphy, who was chief clerk, W. samoan Public Wo rks Department, and who has retired to settle in Wellington, NZ.
Miss Virginia Skipps and Indilla Ahmu,
of W. Samoa, and Miss Niuola Moore, of Tonga, who were bound for Auckland,
per Tofu a.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Sionepesi and John who were visiting New Zealand, from Niue, for the first time.
Mr. Pati Latoa, and Miss Ottohura who were bound for Auckland from Niue.