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extent to which endowed ssions should be permitted to npete with private enterprise Territory of New Guinea 3 issue in an argument before is authority in Lae, New , a few months ago. town of Lae gets its milk from at least three sources Lutheran Mission, which is I by Dr. J. Kuder; Mr. Michael ly, New Guinea pioneer, who .s large farming interests on ghts overlooking the Mark illey; and Mr. T. Kelly, who dairy farm in the Markham near Lae.

Lutheran Mission applied for ver another 400 acres, near id on the presumption that being sought for the ex of the Mission’s dairying •S, Messrs. Leahy and Kelly an objection. 3ase was heard in Lae, by E. Macinnis, Director of the Department. bjectors made the point that unfair that the Mission, had sources of revenue funds donated to Missions propagation of the Gospel) lilable to private citizens, ie given facilities for com hth private enterprise. They 'hat the 1,200 acres already ssion of the Mission should e for Mission purposes, and 1 additional 400 acres were nly to allow the Mission to ts dairying industry.

Mission admitted to Mr

Macinnis that it was the owner of Tropical Dairies which carried on the dairying business; and that Mission letter-paper was used for correspondence connected with Tropical Dairies.

Mr. Leahy asked how much the Mission paid the man in charge of the dairy, and was informed, £l5O per annum. Mr. Leahy pointed out that the man in charge of his dairy ing section got about that amount per month.

Mr. Macinnis said that the Mission appeared to have all the land needed for Mission purposes, and refused the application. t A Samoan local-born European, Mr. William Williams, has corn

pleted his final section for the degree* of MB, Chß (NZ) at the Medical School of the University of Otago and has, therefore, become the first fully trained doctor to graduate under the Scholarship Scheme, and the second local-born European to become a fully qualified medical practitioner. Another Scholarship pupil, Samuelu Atoa, on leave from the Public Service Commissioner’s Office at Apia, has recently gradu ated BA from Brigham Young Uni versity, Utah, USA. t The death occurred recently in the New Hebrides of M. Camille Coulon, of the Shark Bay area, where he had long been a planter.

He was decorated during the Jubilee celebrations last year.