Another Report From The Goilala

The P-NG .Administration in August was examining a report concerning allegations that a missionary had hung chains around the necks of Goilala children. The report was passed on to the Secretary for Law, Mr. W. Watkins, by Administrator Cleland.

The report, from the Goilala area, said a Catholic missionary had placed chains around children’s necks, and imprisoned them at night beneath his house, and during the day made them work on roads — as a deterrent to running away from his mission school.

The Goilala area of Papua, a tough mountainous area which produces a tough kind of native, has had more than its share of notoriety in the last few years.

The Goilala is where two patrol officers got into trouble not long ago following allegations that native prisoners had been hand cuffed to a flagpole: and where a mission teacher was accused (and subsequently acquitted) of assaulting a native by tieing his hands and leading him behind his horse for three miles.