Restricted Areas Are Growing Less
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The restricted areas of Papua-New Guinea—the areas to which visitors are not allowed because there is still a chance of them having their heads taken by the indigenes—were reducd in June by another 11,000 square miles. The last previous announcement declaring the restricted areas was in March, 1958.
THE announcement means that a total of only 10,342 square miles in P-NG is now restricted, and the Administration hopes that patrols will bring these areas under control by the end of 1963.
The areas still restricted are the following portions of these districts: Sepik, 4,238 square miles; Western Highlands, 2,700 square miles; Madang, 400 square miles; Eastern Highlands, 718 square miles; and
Southern Highlands, 2,286 square miles, making a total area of 10,342 square miles.
The last of the big areas was lifted from the “controlled” category in June. This was the Lake Kopiagu area of the West, where a new patrol post is bringing under control about 22,000 primitive tribesmen who pre viously had been contracted by ex ploratory patrols.