Papua-New Guinea Census
p. 121 · Read in the full issue
CONCURRENTLY with the Aus tralian census, the Common wealth Statistician ordered a non indigenous census to be taken in Papua-New Guinea on June 30.
Asiatics as well as Europeans were to be included, and forms were to be completed and returned to dis trict commissioners by July 1.
Officials expected the census to reveal a big increase in the total European population due to ex pansion in trade and private build ing in the last three years. Some estimate the European population at 12,000, compared with 2,500 in Papua and 4,000 in New Guinea when the last census was taken in 1948.