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Netherlands Ng Receives Foreign Aid
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t G rahanC?o e ve P rnmen k t doeLt reques't a financial grant for P-NG from one of the several international agencies that help undeveloped territories. Why, they ask, should Australia attempt to meet all the initial cost of development on its own, bit-by-bit, when a grant might allow the teething troubles of development to be overcome more quickly, and consolidation to take Vfff s l ?wi? r, 1 .
The Netherlands Government apparently looks at things differently, In October it announced it had accepted 35 million dollars aid for
ands New Guinea from the
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Development fund. It will be spent on special projects in the economic social spheres between 1959 and 1964 - The Projects will be in addition to projects included in the NNG annual budgets, The aid will be used for geological and agricultural research work the establishment of an agricultural re search station, construction of a medical centre, the building of new roads and the improvement of exist ing ones, and for a survey of the composition of the native popula tion.