Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 November 1966Vol. 37, No. 11

Ng's Land Problems

p. 21 · Read in the full issue

Page 2121

Are Serious

Dissatisfaction over land in Papua-New Guinea, we believe, will soon be in the public eye, at home and abroad, in a big way. On Bougainville, in Rabaul, Madang and Port Moresby there is special trouble brewing; in Rabaul, illegal native squatting has the Administration and private enterprise disturbed.

Big territory developers may refuse to put in more capital without guarantees, and the Highlands Farmers and Settlers' Association is seeking a com mittee of inquiry into land avail ability generally.

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