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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1957Vol. XXVII, No. 7

Man of Two Worlds ...

p. 19 · Read in the full issue

"Hey Mom.. . Junior’s back from Australia for the school-holidays! (Although the above tilt at the Papua-New Guinea system of se nding se lect ed native children to European colleges in Australia may be reagrded as cruel, it has point. These youngsters of excellent type are expected to live for 10 months of the year as Europeans, and then for two mont hs many return to their villages. Few children of any race could take this kind of treat ment without becoming social-misfits. The alternative is to provide schools for them in P-NG; or divorce them entirely from their environment and give them facilities for living as Euro peans when they Return to the Territory. You can read more about this subject on page 41, this issue; or page 122 of January issue.)