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filled with war news in Oo 1939—f0r the fight with Gen s was only a month old. Pacifies

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German raiders and the Jai\ were under even greater sus'Z than they had been in recent' Here are some more extracts from issue of 20 years ago: A report from Batavia (now Dja said that a Press photographer haj3 imprisoned on a charge of attemptc sell photographs of Australian o works at Port Moresby to the Jae Consul General. ❖ * * The shipping timetables, for long ; of “PlM’s” services, ceased to bee lished as a security measure. * * * After a month of uncertainty abooi copra market, London prices at last? to rise, and on October 6 were £:' a ton CIP London for hot air e which was £2/18/- a ton more thsr price the day war broke out. estimated that the new price wouldb an increase to copra producers throio the South Pacific of about £400,000 —“which just makes all the different; tween penury and reasonable conn said “PIM”. Prices of other product began to climb. * * * Said a Suva correspondent: “Soo the more careful businessman in FI complaining rather bitterly because < high cost of the Government blcnJ offices in Suva—namely £190,000 oddb may have good cause for grumbling : least they can claim that in theiii the Government of Fiji erected a brd which is a credit to the Colony and £ will probably repay them many timet in the increased value of all propen Suva”. They would certainly agrees that now. * * * The Jehovah’s Witnesses were g some publicity in parts of the Paco, years ago, just as they are today. . were active in Papua and Fiji. II they kicked up a rumpus in the over a ban on the importation ofh literature. The court action, againn Comptroller of Customs, was disni; and as a result members of the seo; tested in a cable to King George T public pamphlets, the Witnesses ae the Government of being influenced 1 Roman Catholic church in its attitvl the sect. A whole series of leaflet tacked the Church, the police ana Government.

A report from Rabaul with a fffi: ring about it told of the formatiomi New Guinea Association, a representing various groups and resa in the Territory with the purpose ofic ing more effectively with public a At the inaugural meeting it “wai£ phasised that, apart from the LegiL Council—which is dominated by the i nominated members —the people o£c Guinea have no voice whatever inn Government. It is felt that, as ther tralian Government does not permtn important move in New Guinea ww its permission, the New Guinea ress should demand a representative i:i Commonwealth Parliament”.