The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1959Vol. XXX, No. 3

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pp. 146-147 · Read in the full issue

On New Guine

After months of silence oio New Guinea Tax crisis, ,

Sydney Morning Herald, I

October 2, pleaded that a * structive effort to get the I peans in New Guinea on si?,

surely worth making”.

Then SMH advocated I

long overdue official inquiry'

conditions in the Territori-i “That Mr. Hasluck is an able, ( and extremely hard-working MV no one could reasonably deny.

“He has, however, given some e the unhappy impression of dictatorial.

“In the circumstances, there j haps something to be said fol Labour Party’s suggestion that I liamentary committee of equal nvr of Government and Opposition be set up to investigate the t and administration of New Guini

•s anyone know the where s of “Whitegrass Robbie”? laitland, who was an ADO w Guinea until 1929, when mt adventuring in Central ica, wants to know.

Robertson was a former s h Public School boy, and Iterweight champion; and as chasing gold in New ia in the ‘Twenties. They : him “Whitegrass Robbie” he was mining on the t—probably to distinguish from the famous “Sepik i o” , Maitland lives now in ment at “Wiwiak”, Eastern Wahroonga, Sydney. , he claims, is the correct ng of Wewak). He breeds pion cattledogs and writes . A book of his about men ivents in Honduras will be ihed soon; and some of his e aristocrats may be seen he Solomons and New za. /way, where is “Whitegrass ie”?