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Governor cules [?]mbo Plan

long ago, an interesting Iress on Burma was given members of the Royal Society in London by Sir Ranee, who was the last Governor of Burma, hbert made no reference to lombo Flan—that idealistic ion brought into operation >O, under which United n, Canada and the South British Commonwealth js are spending many \ per annum in providing ist Asian countries with free al help and equipment, in ae that the Asians thereby persuaded into a friendly ! to us. r Hubert was asked whether, ipinion. the operation of the o Plan had made any ce in the attitude of the e towards us.

Hubert replied: “Not the t!” as asked whether he did not :hat more publicity should n to the benefits which the o Plan conferred on certain ;s.

Hubert (an experienced Governor) ridiculed the o Plan, and its effect upon pinion.

Pacific Islands Monthly, for

several years, has been insisting that all this Australian expenditure on the Colombo Plan (£4,675,000 in 1955-56, and a similar amount proposed in 1956-57) could be used to far better purpose within Australia, or at least within Aus tralian Territories. A lot could be done with £9,000,000. which is what Australia alone is giving away to wholly unappreciative Asians within two years]. t Mr. A. H. de Tourettes, who was on the staff of the Bank of NZ in Suva in the 1920’5, visited Fiji this month with his wife. Mr. de Tourettes is now manager of the West End branch of the bank in Wellington.

t The largest herd of cattle to be sold for some time is being put up for sale by the Papua-New Guinea Administration. The 37 to be sold -nclude 21 2-year-old steers and 16 yearling steers from Baiyer River Twenty-one sheep from Erap are to be sold also.