Chinese Fear The Future

Chinese fears for their security after independence in Papua New Guinea were voiced by a Kavieng business man, Mr Philip Fong, to a session of the Constitutional Planning Committee when it visited New Ireland.

Mr Fong, who was defend ing the Chinese community against a charge that it was not helping in the develop ment of PNG, said there was no security for people from other countries and they were afraid they would be forced to leave after self-government.

To back up his claim that the Chinese were helping in development, Mr Fong pro duced a booklet which he had written in Pidgin containing medical advice.

The attack on the Chinese had come earlier in the ses sion from a New Ireland woman, Mrs Aplonia Socho zel of Was aw a, who said that as well as not helping in de velopment, the Chinese were making big profits on PNG land. These types of people, she said, should not become citizens of PNG.