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Plain Speaking By NG Education Director
A FAIR number of the 72 Papua- New Guinea natives at secon v dary schools in Australia should be brought home immediately, the Director of Education, Mr. W. E.
Groves, told the Territory Legisla tive Council in October.
Mr. Groves said they should either be given vocational training in the Territory or put into jobs.
Most of these students had gone to Australia at too low a level of education and their adjustment to the new life had not been easy for them. Australian education had no relation to life in the Territory.
Mr. Groves said natives were asked to study French and Greek when English itself was a foreign language to them.
Mr. Groves said he believed that the training of natives at secon dary schools in Australia had been justified because it supplied trained people quicker than would other wise have been possible.
But the time had now come to get away from an Australian to a Territory standard, and it was now time for secondary schools in P-NG. t The Resident Commissioner of Niue Island, Mr. A. O. Dare, paid a short visit to Western Samoa, in September, to study conditions there. From Samoa he will travel to New Caledonia to attend a meeting of the South Pacific Commission at Noumea.
ty Mr. A. M. Greenwood, who been Acting Attorney-General Fiji since 1956, has now ti confirmed in that office. He pn tised law in London before the w and he left the British 1945 with the rank of Major, a Military Cross which had b earned by very distinguished sen in several war theatres. In IT as a member of the British Coloc Service, he went to Uganda j Deputy Registrar of the Supn Court. He is 45 years old, married.
Travellers From Auckland To Islam
Miss Rita MacDonald, of Blenheim, NZ, was bound for Apia with her brother, who taking op an appointment as chief drau[?] man, Lands Department. She travelled "Matua".
Bound for Nadi, Fiji, by "Matua", were: and Mrs. M. A. Tinker and Mr. and Mrs C. Ritchie.
Miss J. Harder and Mrs. F. Arp, who returning home to Apia per "Matua".
Photos: J. P. Sho[?]