NOT GIVING AWAY LAND
Australian Mandated Areas IDEA "UNTHINKABLE” (Received 14, 10.40 a.m.) CANBERRA, March 14. “It is unthinkable that Australia should even consider handing- over any territory,’’ said the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Sir George Pearce, to-day in tho course of a statement on mandated lands. Referring specifically to New Guinea, Sir George Pearce said that by virtue of its geographical - position, its natural harbours and its facilities for naval and military aircraft it was of considerable strategic value to Australia eo long as the existing form of control and administration obtained, lie added that the claim that colonial territory provided an outlet for surplus populations was not borne out by the settlement figures.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 79, 14 March 1936, Page 4
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