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New Guinea
Posts
The Australia New Guinea Corporaand Council on New Guinea affairs have both announced appoint ments of men to fill top posts. fFHE Corporation and the Council -*• were established by private capital earlier this year, the first to develop and sponsor commercial development in P-NG, and the second to publicise New Guinea and create a better informed public on New Guinea’s problems.
General manager of the Corpora tion, who will take up his post in Port Moresby in October, is Mr.
Paul Sharp, 44. Mr. Sharp was previously NSW manager of I.C.T. and, earlier, general manager of Fairymead Sugar.
Executive officer of the Council is Mr. Peter Hastings, leading Sydney journalist and writer on P-NG affairs, who has been editor of the Bulletin since 1962. He has been given six months leave of absence from the Bulletin to get the Council organised, and he will work from Sydney. The Council will arrange conferences and seminars (a seminar will probably be arranged first) and will eventually produce a journal on New Guinea affairs.
Mr. Paul Sharp, who has been appointed general manager of the Australia New Guinea Corporation Ltd.