Australia "Momua"
p. 154 · Read in the full issue
Ex-Magistrate's View
Make Up
Mind" About N[?]
YOUNG men wanting to their luck” in New Gv might be well advised to until the political uncertainty ii Territory has sorted itself out,, veteran magistrate W. E. Sau before he left Australia for Bn in late September.
Mr. Sansom, who has gonr visit his family in England, ha* tired from the Papua-New Gu Administration after years’ service.
“Australia has not yet really n up its mind about what it wane do with New Guinea,” he said: “We are doing a fine job for native people, and before long numbers will start to inci; rapidly, but if we are to main control of the country that is enough. We must provide t with the means to improve ‘ standard of living and fit thems« into a modern world.”
MR. SANSOM said that, as as he could see, this coull afforded, and done, European leadership and private terprise. Somehow or other, pri enterprise must be encourage*; New Guinea by liberalising coo tions under which Europeans co obtain and hold land.
Meanwhile, he added, young trying to make a success of trop agriculture or planting were g£ to encounter some “heartbrea* difficulties”.
Mr. Sansom said that among?
New Guinea people, as among El peans, there were the good andfc bad, the honest and the dishorn They would be valuable allie.
Australia ever had trouble with —provided Australia could unr stand, control and help them ; realistic as well as an idealistic ' If Taine Dai, a New Guinea stun at Ipswich Grammar ScK; Queensland, broke his left leg w competing in a schools’ athr contest at Brisbane on Septera 17.