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'THE new British Resident Comn A sioner in the New Hebrid Mr. A. M. Wilkie, and his Fret counterpart, Monsieur M. Delaun officially opened a new airfield Aneityum on October 6.
The airfield, the first to be built the New Hebrides since internal services were started, is on the sm island of Inyeng.
During its construction, relics a 19th century whaling station wi found. The relics included try pc harpoons, pieces of iron and cerm slabs.
With the opening of this airfie all the southern islands of the Cc dominium now have landing stri Aneityum will be included in 1 operational area of New Hebric Airways Limited. * * * The first concert shell in P-NG soon to be built at Kieta, Bouga ville. The people of Kieta hope raise between £5OO and £7OO to p for the platform and shell. The sta will be big enough to hold 50 p< formers, and the shell will made of steel. * * ♦ There are now 3,700 scouts, cul and rover scouts in P-NG—t) highest number since scouting w started in the Territory nearly years ago. Last year a record nui ber of 900 boys joined the Territc Boy Scouts’ Association and durii the year five Papuan and N* Guinean scouts passed tests for th* Queen’s Scout Badge, one of ti highest awards scouts can obtain, the Christmas holidays 20 scouts frc P-NG will attend the Australii Scout’s Corroboree which will held at Hobart, together with abc 2,000 scouts from Australia, Asia a;j the South Seas. 7 7 * A five year plan for the extensi<i of agricultural work among tJ natives of P-NG has been approvv by the Minister for Territories, M Paul Hasluck. Mr.l Hasluck said fl programme aimed to create a highd
i\ of village subsistence and an reased standard of living. This uld result from the superior cash p varieties giving higher yields, ter cash crop processing and rketing facilities. * * * \ night-club brawl at Suva about middle of October saw a member the crew of the Oronsay in court ct day on a charge of having mur ed a fellow sailor. Both worked the liner’s engine-room.
Fhe same afternoon the police, act - under a court warrant, took five Ire members of the crew from the onsay only an hour or so before j was to leave Suva because they re required as witnesses.
The man charged with murder is rence Ernest Dobbs, 20, of Swan 1, Wales. The dead man, who was ried at Suva on October 15, was exander James Cameron, 21, of
rkcaldy, Scotland.
♦ ♦ ♦ New industries may be established Papua if natural gas near Barikewa n be harnessed. Prospects are ing investigated by the Burmah Oil >. of Australia Ltd. and the urphy Australia Oil Co. The Ad inistration will contribute half the sts, which are expected to be 2,000.
Territories Minister, Mr. Hasluck, Id the House of Representatives cently that the first stage of the in stigation was to examine prospects establishing industries. These iuld be the making of cement, trogen products and carbon black, : said.
If the report was favourable, a cond-stage investigation would be ade to determine the extent of gas serves. * * * At a meeting attended by Papuan, ew Guinean and European repre ntatives of the Anglican, Methodist, id Lutheran Churches and the Len in Missionary Society in Lae, NG, :cently it was decided to invite Afri m Church leaders to visit Papua ew Guinea. The visit will probably 3t take place until 1964. * * * The Sugar Price Stabilisation Fund vy in Fiji has been suspended from le start of the 1962 sugar season, he fund came into operation in 946 when the British Government greed to pay a higher price than le world price for a proportion of ’ommonwealth producers’ exports of jgar to Britain.