"Administration

Stooges"

Mr. Whitlam didn’t have it all his own way in his headline hitting tour of P-NG but he led the field in name-calling. At a meeting of 150 Hanuabadans, arranged by the Pangu Party so that the labour leader could ex plain what he would do when he was Prime Minister, the P-NG Assist. Ministerial Member for Treasury, Gala Oala-Rarua, sug gested that while in Rabaul, Whitlam supported lawbreakers in his speech backing the anti government Mataungan Assn. He told him it was time he packed his bags and went home.

Whitlam tartly reminded Oala- Rarua that he had once held radical opinions but he was now turning into an “Uncle Tom”— an American expression rarely used publicly in P-NG.

When Ministerial Member for Labour Toua Kapena supported Oala, Mr. Whitlam called them both “Administration stooges.”