P-Ng Population
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Lanning For 4,500,000
[PROVING health services and nutrition is a vital factor in the increasing child population
Papua-New Guinea,
recent report on the population ids of native people living in iges around Port Moresby in ites an expected increase from present 6,000 to 12,000 by 1970. s represents an annual increase 5.2 per cent., at which rate the ive population would be expected iouble every 14 years. Present mated population of the entire ritory might increase from 0,000 to 4,500,000 soon after 1980. he Minister for Territories, Mr. luck, said recently that the first it task was to improve the idard of the teaching in existing >ols, and to build schools for laps 150,000 children as yet un shed.