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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1956Vol. XXVI, No.12

Etherlands New Guinea

p. 163 · Read in the full issue

Budget, 1957

TOTAL expenditure of £14,000,000 L is expected in Netherlands New Guinea in 1957.

Revenue will he £7,000,000 (pre mably mostly from oil) and the mainder will be provided by the jtherlands Government.

t Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, KCMG, KBE, who has been studying Parlia mentary procedure in the United Kingdom before becoming the first Speaker of Fiji’s Legislative Council, returned to the Colony on July 11.

He travelled from London by the Canadian Pacific Airlines P route—so probably can be said to have made history by becoming the first Fijian to go to the North Pole.