Siatan Goes To Reprove Sin In New Guinea!

Papua-new guinea can ex pect another politico-economic visitation. This time, it is a ommittee of the executive of the ISW Labour Party which has been nstructed to investigate reports of 11-treatment of natives.

It appears that some former pub ic servants of NSW, of pro lounced Socialist views, were en aged as members of the public ervice in P-NG. When, in the ourse of their duties, they came nto direct contact with the natives, hey tried to apply the “Brown Jrother” technique which made he P-NG service notorious during he Ward-Murray regime, after the far. Their superior officers tried o explain to them the differences ©tween administration in Austra ia and New Guinea; but they be ame argumentative and hostile— nd were promptly shown the leaning of discipline, and shipped ack to Australia, So far as we can ascertain, there fere only two or three such cases, hit, of course, the gentlemen con erned went howling to the Trades [all politicians, with the result tated.

TIE do not know the names of the ff “committee of investigation.”

But to-day, before the commit ee gets into action, we could de cribe the procedure which it will dopt, the attitude of the investi ators in P-NG, and the nature of he report which they will give to he Trades Hall. The pattern never aries.

Nothing will convince the Aus ralian Socialists that Brown Jrother is not being exploited by reedy Capitalism, in the shape of lanters, traders, miners, etc. [©thing will persuade Trades Hall conomists that it is not possible o pay to native workers in New iuinea the wage rates paid to white workers in Australia. We have heard he silly arguments going on, in 11 the Pacific Islands countries, for quarter-century; and, presumably, hey will go on interminably.

Meanwhile, P-NG residents will erive some grim amusement from he “investigations” of the Sydney 'rades Hall committee.

PRRITORIANS should remem ber the investigators’ back ground. The Socialists have tad control of the New South Vales State and local administra ions for many years; and, year by ear, living conditions in the State lave become more intolerable. All üblic transport is increasingly in fficient, and its deficits are now lonumental.

The laziness and inefficiency of much of the huge public service have poisoned the whole industrial and social structure. This is most plainly seen in the building in dustry, where costs now are so high that every kind of building is away behind public demand, so that the form of black-marketing called “key money” now has become estab lished practice.

Every public inquiry made under Royal Commission has disclosed commercial or political corruption, or both. Government of the State by Trades Hall puppets, directed from their hidden places by a Socialist junta, has exposed a series of scandals which have rocked pub lic life in Australia, and shaken the people’s confidence in the so-called Parliamentary system.

The gentlemen who are generally responsible for this chaos and cor ruption in NSW are the very same gentlemen who are sending a com mittee of “investigators” to New Guinea!

Four Fijian athletes are to tour the Southland Province of New Zealand in January, at the invita tion of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association.

fl Miss Greta Lennartz and Mr.

Gordon Ashwood, both of Rabaul, New Guinea, are to be married in Sydney, NSW, in December.

A group of American Trust Ter ritories officials visited Eastern and Western Samoa during November.

The party included William C.

Strand, Chief of the Office of Terri tories; Delbert H. Nucker, executive officer, Officer of Territories; Senator Guy Cordon, of Oregon, and his ad ministrative assistant, Robert B.

Darkman; Senator Milton R. Young, of North Dakota; and Riley H.

Allen, editor of the Honolulu Star- Bulletin. The party intended also to visit the Trust Territory of Micro nesia.