P-NG Committee on Pacific tour
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Having completed its tour of the territory to consider peoples’ views on self-government, Papua-New Guinea’s Select Committee on Constitutional Development, chaired by Paulus Arek, was to leave on a fact-finding tour of the Pacific and across the world at the end of June.
The committee has been split into two six-man groups. One group is visiting Guam, Saipan, Honolulu, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva and Honiara. The other is going round the world taking in Sydney, Singapore, Colombo, Nairobi, Rome and Calcutta.
The South Pacific group will be in the US Trust territory and Guam from June 30 to July 8, from July 9 to 12 in American Samoa, from July 12 to 15 in Western Samoa, from July 15 to 22 in Fiji, and from July 22 to 27 in the Solomons.
Above are chairman, Paulus Arek (with briefcase), and John Middleton, with natives at Telefomin, in the remote West Sepik, at the end of the committee's New Guinea tour.