P-Ng Controlled In 18 Months

The P-NG Administration has set another target date for the complete control of the savages.

i DMINSTRATION officers in Port Moresby say that patrols will have fully penetrated the territory in 18 months, and the whole of it will then be under Gov ernment control.

The Minister for Territories Mr, Hasluck, made a similar prediction several years ago now, and there have been other target dates fixed from time to time.

Of the 183,000 square miles of the Territory, there are now about 25,000 square miles not under full control. There is less than 10 per cent, of the native population of

1,750,000 still outside Administra tion control.

A Native Affairs’ staff of more than 300 is responsible for the work of consolidation.