[?]G Natives Were

Crammed to Aircraft”

■E Administration should ap point its own officers to recruit labour in New Guinea, said J. E. Fitzgerald in the Austra- Federal Parliament on October r. Fitzgerald, who gave details 1-treatment of natives by native siting officers, described some these officers as “worse than kbirders”. also described a nine-hour t for which, he said, natives been herded into a plane like e and given nothing to eat or k. He had seen 20 natives imed with baggage and freight an aircraft which also carried Curopeans, including himself, r. Fitzgerald said that when he ested against the “inhumane :ment” of the natives, he was he could “get out of the plane” e wanted to make more room them. r. Fitzgerald’s complaint re ing the treatment of native engers in planes was substan y supported by a Sydney Morn- Herald correspondent on Octo -10.