P-NG is Less
p. 167 · Read in the full issue
Wild Now
It was announced in Port Moresby in June that only 4,528 square miles of restricted area still remain in Papua - New Guinea. “Restricted” areas are areas whose inhabitants are primitive people who are still fighting and feuding with their neighbours, and visitors need an administration permit to enter.
The restricted areas that now remain are in the Sepik district (2,120 square miles), Western Highlands (1,270 square miles).
Eastern Highlands (718 square miles), and the Southern High lands (420 square miles). As a result of the latest proclamation, the Madang district is now totally derestricted.
P-NG Director of Native Affairs, Mr. Keith McCarthy, said the administration planned that the remaining 4,528 square miles of restricted area would dis appear by June, 1963.