Mace Designed For
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P-Ng Assembly
Papua-New Guinea's new House of Assembly will have a Mace which will be carried by the Sergeant-at- Arms. The mace will be a tapering shaft of local timbers, covered with appropriate ascending motifs in gold.
It will be 4 ft. 3 in., overall, with a knob at each end.
At the lower end the knob will be three-sided and will carry the Australian coat of arms. The top will consist of a large stone, sup ported by claws, and surmounted by a Crown.
The prototype has been made, but the design has yet to be approved by the Queen. Some members of the Federal Parliament object to the Mace being presented at all.
Some local wags have already sug gested that the Crown should be fixed by a screw and easily remov able so that it can be replaced by something else "when the time comes".