Prostitution “Unchecked"
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From JOHN RYAN, in Port Moresby Newly-elected New Guinea MHA for the Chimbu Regional seat, missionary Father John Nilles, believes in straight-talking.
That’s why, in his first major speech in parliament in September, he got stuck into the Chimbu problem of prostitution, and New Guinea’s general problem of ruralurban drift, and vagrancy. t ...
Tougher ponce action is what Roman Catholic Father John Nilles demanded. Little wonder, he said, that there s so much syphilis m the Highlands nowadays, since prostitution has gone unchecked for years.
Three years ago when he was still
priest at Mingende near Kundiawa, Father Nilles (born Germany, and in New Guinea since 1937) launched into fullscale attack against truckies (native and Australian) picking up comely Chimbu girls . . . and at that time, the government denied his charges. Now, retrospectively, the Government admits he was right. But the Government cannot think of a neat way round the problem of prostitution.
Undaunted, Father Nilles MHA intends to keep hammering away.