WHITE MAN'S BURDEN

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 63, 11 September 1924, Page 5

WHITE MAN'S BURDEN

GOVERNMENT OF NEW GUINEA

'ADVICE TO AUSTRALIA,

"" (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION*,— COPI'r.IQHI.) (Received 11th September, 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. 'A report ou the mandated territory of !Nb\v Guinea v * by Colonel Ainsworth, late Chief Native Commission in Kenya Colony, has been presented to the Federal Parliament. ..*'.- : . It recommends that the territory should be governed by an administrator, assisted by an Advisory Council, and not made dependent upon the political or economic requirements of Australia. ■: The report refers to the absence of' toads to the interior, . which- prevents tlio Administrator visiting the out stations. If the Commonwealth is going to give effect to' the terms of the mandate, it must be prepared to go to some expense and trouble in finding-suitable locations to which isolated natives can be moved. .The native population is remarkably sparse, and extremely backward. ..:.■''.. Colonel Ainsworth considers; that without Asiatics, or some similar people, ! progress must wait, and the public revenues will become stationary, if not retrogressive. He. says there is no reason to believe that the ingress of Asiatics will be harmful .to the native people. He is of opinion that the.continuation of the Expropriation Board as plantation owners is undesirable. '