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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1974Vol. 45, No. 1

Equality

p. 28 · Read in the full issue

Fight For

PNG Agriculture Minister lam bakey Okuk, told graduating stu dents at the Popondetta Agricul tural Training Institute in December that their work to help the PNG people might bring them into con flict with foreign interests, but if they believed their ideas were right they should fight to see them imple mented. He said development policies in the past led to inequality among New Guineans, but the PNG Govern ment’s new Eight-Point-Plan was aimed at reversing this, and the plan should be followed by graduates. The Institute, he added, was not concer ned with producing graduates with academic snobbery.