Much-Travelled Simogun
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“Fit Only For Pigs”
More Complaints From Much-Travelled Simogun
SIMOGUN, native member of New Guinea Legislative Council who has now seen everything from a Royal Ball at Canberra to the South Pacific Conference in full blast, is beginning to feel his oats.
On the opening day of the Legis lative Council meeting on May 28, he complained that the house that native members of Legco were forced to inhabit during the sit tings, was. in effect, little better than a house for pigs.
This is the second time within the year that Simogun has com plained about these quarters (last time he said that they “stink fin ish”), but this time he was an swered (more in sorrow than in anger) by Civil Affairs Director Lonergan who said that the house had been cleaned thoroughly under the personal supervision of the local District Officer: that complaints about food, and lack of efficient native servants for the native MLC’s were unjustified as it had been arranged for them to get, if they wished, their meals from the Kone dobu Administration Mess.
Simogun has recently, of course
—with the rest of the official P-NG delegation to the South Pacific Commission—had his education broadened still further by staying en route to Suva at the Hotel Australia, Sydney.
This little piece of Australian ex travagance would at one time have caused something like a riot in
P-NG but now produces not but a few raised eyebrows ar couple of censorable epithets. P has been democratised very qui It is only 10 years ago since Co] Murray rocked the local citiz by inviting a few Papuans to a : —an event which now seems off and in a dream.