MANDATED NEW GUINEA
' ■'■ .-.:.■. : 1>; ... ■>-. ... ■•■-■■-:•■ REPORT ON MILITARY .. OCCUPATION. ,ytmws pißss association—copniawj (Received, July 1, 10.a.m.) , ■■■ .-- ■ ;. SYDNEY, This Day." - 1 ■•■'An official report ' dealing with .the' nilitary occupation of the mandated territory in N&w. Guinea, states that , . .he native .population: is estimated at .... from 350,000 to. 400,000. ; The labour ■. question is difficult, even in the modest stage attained by the tropical agricufture of. about 150,000 acres under cultivation. The supply of plantation labour is already inadequate. The cost of the1 . piiEtary . admlnistrat'ion\from,:the date af' occupation to the transfer to: the ■ civil administration, -wasL £1,192,000, kndi-fh© revenue' was £884,000. ■'■.".' .. '
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 1, 1 July 1922, Page 7
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97MANDATED NEW GUINEA Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 1, 1 July 1922, Page 7
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