NEW GUINEA
LEGISLATORS’ INVESTIGATIONS SERIOUS CHARGES MADE. ROYAL COMMISSION DEMANDED [By dable —Press Assn. — Copyright.! (Received 31, 12.30 p.rn.J Sydney, Aug. 31. Senator Chapman, one of the party of Federal legislators who have been investigating conditions in the mandated territory of New Guinea, makes serious charges of dummying In connection with expropriated German plantations end demands that a Royal Commission of inquiry be set up. He also says that the Chinese are increasing rapidly owing to the high birth rate and that they control most of the local trade. There are two Chinese hotels at Rabual to which Europeans are compelled to go because there is insufficient accommodation elsewhere.
The Chinese position and their rapid increase are regarded seriously by local people.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 31 August 1927, Page 5
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122NEW GUINEA Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 31 August 1927, Page 5
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