Picture of a Resident
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iustralian Territories Minister Paul Hasluck, in a radio address igh P-NG stations 9PA/VLT6 the day he arrived there to face oeople, took time off to say something about Territory pride.
'lt seems to me,” he said, “that too many people in Papua-New ■ea today are not proud enough of the Territory. Oh, yes, you your pride—but so often it seems as though it is just a pride in 1 a peculiar mob living in a peculiar place. And you are not that I. But because of this strange fierce pride, what you are doing ften is to run down the place in which you live, making it out - a hell of a hole from which you would gladly escape if you were mch proud and peculiar persons.
'And you forget so many of the things in which you could justly roud. This is a country that has a beauty, a grandeur and a less of which to boast. Australian people are doing here one of most difficult tasks of development, administration and social formation that is being faced in any part of the world. . . Dont rvalue your own achievements and don’t say things about the Itory which you don’t really mean.”