P-NG Europeans Asked
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To Face Facts
BREADTH of vision was essential to the development of Papua- New Guinea, said the Assistant Administrator (Mr. R. W. Wilson), when opening the conference of Dis trict Commissioners at Port Moresby on March 14.
Development plans, he said, must take into consideration the needs of the native population. It was un reasonable to devote too large a
proportion of Territory resources to the provision of services and ameni ties for the European population.
By their presence in the Territory Europeans had accepted a career or a way of life involving some pioneering, and it could not be ex pected that living standards would be equivalent to those prevailing in
the larger towns and cities of Ai tralia. t Fiji’s motor vehicles increased 1,684 to a total of 6,621 in 1954. 1 1,061 new vehicles licensed co prised 530 cars, station-waggons a pickups, 331 heavy and light lorr and 200 tractors.