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High Costs on Manus Is.
THE new residence on Manus Island for the naval officer in charge, North-East Australian Area, was built by the Common wealth Government at a cost of £13,380.
This was stated recently by the Minister for the Navy, Mr. J.
Francis. An officers’ mess building had cost £15,400 and a swimming pool £3,000. The Government had also authorised £239,000 for the erection of 36 cottages. Six of these have already been built.
* n an effort to find the cause of the rapidly decreasing numbers o t M uruts, an aboriginal British North Bornpo trihP nr Tnhn r t ill
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Su a S v S0 y s l lal f^ nt^ropolog^ JY 111 spe 2. d s i x months living with them. Dr. Landgraf believes the trouble is partly due to inter marriage with the Dusans, a re lated group more adapted to Euro pean civilisation. As disease may also be partly responsible, he will work with Dr. Ivan Polunin, of the University of Malaya, who is con ducting a medical study of the tribe