Proposed

New Guinea Union Proposed

Amongst the dozens of sug gestions New Guinea natives made to the recent UN Trustee ship Visiting Mission, the only one that promoted the idea of union with West New Guinea came from Somo Sigob. Sigob is elected native member for the NG Coastal Electorate in the P NG Legislative Council.

It has been rumoured in the Territory lately that Sigob is one of the Trusteeship Territory native leaders whom West New Guinea native leaders have been cultivating in their attempt to get their plan for the amalgamation of the two Territories off the ground.

Most native P-NG leaders are against it and so, no doubt (al though it would not be admitted in so many words) is Australian officialdom.

Whatever might be its merits as pure political theory, such a notion in the present state of affairs in West New Guinea will make shivers run up and down the spines of anyone with more than sixpence invested in the Territory. If anything more were needed to speed the flight of capital or put a halt to develop ment in P-NG this could be it.

In Port Moresby in May it was announced that Sigob (pictured in the P-NG Legislative Council) would attend the UN Trustee ship Council meeting in New York in June, when the report of the visiting UN Mission will be discussed.