This group of 15 native leaders from the Mt. Hagen area (shown

Civilisation, Here We Come

Well, thank Heaven they left them alone from the neck up! If they’ve Europeanised the Sikhs of India from the neck down, and left them only their magnificent beards and turbans, who are we to complain if they hand out the same treatment to the Western Highlanders of New Guinea? (New Guinea's getting to be so like

India, so the experts say).

This group of 15 native leaders from the Mt. Hagen area (shown here with Administrator Cleland) were in Port Moresby in January seeing how things are done in the Big Smoke. They were shown places like the hydro-electric installations, the Legislative Council chambers and the hospital. (And they were probably impressed, too).

Recently these people sold the Administration enough land, seven miles from Mt. Hagen, to build a 10,000 ft jet strip-although what that has to do with their visit to Port Moresby we wouldn’t know.

Most members of the group are coffee planters in their own right, and several of them are going into the road haulage business.