NEW PRINCIPLES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1936, Page 10

NEW PRINCIPLES.

NATIVE EDUCATION. EXPERIENCES IN PAPUA. GOVERNOR SYMPATHETIC. The fact that the Government in Papua is generally sympathetic towards the principles of native education enunciated by ProfessoV A. P. Elkin was mentioned this morning"'by Mr. F. E. Williams, Government anthropologist at Papua, who is also going to tlie same conference as Professor Elkin. Mr. Williams, who arrived in Auckland by the Mariposa, said he had been 14 years in Papua. His interest was in what he called applied anthropology. He did not deal in ethnology or archae-

ology and did not profess to know anything about them. He dealt with the problems of native life as they were at present. As a practical man he said that the conference was worth while. Generally, the principles to be stressed at the conference, and propounded by Professor Elkin, whose opinions also appear in the "Star," had his approval. He endorsed what the professor had said about the sympathy of the Lieut.Governor, Sir Hubert Murray, who himself was a considerable student of anthropology. That did not mean to say that Sir Hubert agreed with all that anthropologists said, but it did show that he had an open mind. Mr. Williams said that in his opinion the future of Papua was in rubber and copra. Gold had been discovered there, but not in the same quantities as had been the ease in the mandated territory.