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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1966Vol. 37, No. 1

Findings On P-Ng

p. 26 · Read in the full issue

Tv Due Soon

Professor Derek Broadbent and Mr.

Douglas Brooke, who made up a two-man Commission of Inquiry into television in Papua-New Guinea in October and November will present a report on their findings to the P-NG Administrator, Sir Donald Cleland, in January.

The Commission paid a preliminary visit to the Territory in October to invite appropriate persons to give evidence at formal hearings in November. These hearings were held in Port Moresby, Rabaul, Lae, Bulolo, Goroka and Mt. Hagen.

The Commission's terms of re ference were: "To inquire into . . . the usefulness, technical feasibility and costs of television in the Ter ritory of Papua and New Guinea, not only as an educational medium but as a medium for mass com munication and entertainment."