[?] Cargo Cult

Many ''Still Believe" [?] Cargo Cult

The Cargo Cult won’t die uietly in the Pacific.

ATEST to kick the ball around J —not without interest—is Dr.

Peter Lawrence, of the National mversity, Canberra, and ASOPA. ydney, who was in New Guinea i January continuing his studies n it, and on native social rgamsation.

He began his work in 1949 in the ladang district, and was back to polish it off”. He intends to write book this year, describing the

growth of the cult in the Madang- Saidor area. 0,/if CCC f r( H Lawrence, the cult started in that district about

JJ/A’ . , a scientist named

Mikluho- Maclay, a Russian noble- ?? a *? Scottish descent, arrived to study the native way of life, and the natives found it necessary to explain his possessions u Many believe It Dr. Lawrence says he believes there are many P-NG natives who have a belief in the Cargo Cult without practising it, and adds: “It is essential to understand how these people think of us and our way of life, because if you are going, to change their ways of thinking and their way of living,

you must know what you are up against.

“it is questionable whether any administration in any dependent territory like this has really been able to achieve this, but it is up to every European in this territory to try to understand the native.” , , .

Cargo Cult was also discussed by one or two speakers at the Institute of Political Science summer school in Canberra in January.

The Assistant Administrator of P-NG, Dr. John Gunther, said: “To put the aspirations of the NG people very simply, they are; To have the cargo that we Europeans have got.

If we teach them the ways of get ting it or give them the tools that will manufacture it, we will have partly achieved our task.”