P-NG Scheme to Aid Settlers

Aid Settlers

THE Administration of Papua- New Guinea is at work on a scheme (which is “expected to emerge shortly”) whereby financial assistance will be given to settlers starting out in primary production.

Those who get assistance will be “deserving cases.”

This meagre information was con tained in a letter from the P-NG Government Secretary to the Central District Advisory Council in January.

Just how long this particular butterfly will take to “emerge” from its Administration chrysalis, is any one’s guess, but if it takes as long as the allocation of land, present P-NG residents would do well to enter their sons’ names for the benefits to come.

There is no indication, in the re port we have received, just what one must do to be considered a “de serving case.”

No doubt many settlers would be glad of financial aid —if there are not too many strings tied to it. But most of these people, so far, have asked nothing from the Administra tion but freedom to take up a piece of land and to get ahead with the job. And a great many of them have been unable to do even that.

A new Australian company, among whose directors are well known identities Chips Rafferty and Lee Robinson, will shortly start to make a full-length film in New Guinea.

The company, South International (Production and Distribution) Ltd., has a capital of £120,000 which, the

directors hope, will enable them make pictures continuously inst of having to wait for the profits one to finance the next. Raffer first film (“The Phantom Stc man”) cost £lO,OOO, and his la (“King of the Coral Sea”) was m for £25,000.

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Director of Educa on in Western amoa, Mr. K. R. [?]ambie with Mrs. ambie and daughters ae and Ann. The mily spent Xmas [?], NZ on furlough, [?]r. Lambie is re [?]ming to Samoa [?]r his third term of [?]ree years; he then due for retire [?]ent. He has been [?]och praised for [?]s work, and, under [?]s guidance, eduea [?]mal progress in the [?]rritory has been scribed as “almost [?]believable!”

Photo by R. F. [?]nkin