P Ng's Big Labour Force

T™ 1 ® were over 74,000 natives 1 employed in Papua and New Guinea at the end of December, J? 5 L ove 47,000 of J^ m em^l °y ed SJ £ ew Gumea and the remainder m T f a P ua ; 4 1S interesting to recall that doubts on the ability of the Territory to go on supplying increasing numbers of native labourers were expressed when the total was around 40,000.

The employment of large numbers of Highlanders in other parts of the Territory has been the reason why the native labour pool has not, as fore Casted, run dry-yet.