New Guinea Is
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Its Name
The New Britain District Advisory Council wants the name of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea changed simply to New Guinea.
The Council was told recently by its chairman, Mr. Ron Levi, that thinking in the Territory should be unified and that mem bers of the community should not regard themselves as Sepiks or Papuans or Chinese or Australians but “New Guineans Social labels such as “indigines” and “ expatriates” should be refected.
The Kokopo Town Advisory Council, New Britain, has made similar recommendations recently and this long-standing problem of what simple name to give the whole Territory and its people has had quite an airing from many other quarters, including the P-NG Legislative Council, in the last few months.