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PROBLEM FOR AUSTRALIA. REPORT ON NEW GUINEA. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright MELBOURNE, September 11. A report on the mandated territory of New Guinea by Colonel Ainsworth, formerly Chief Native Commissioner in Kenya Colony, has been presented to the Federal Parliament. It reoommends that the territory should l be governed by an administrator, assisted by an advisory council, and not made dependent upon tho political or economic requirements of Australia. The report refors to the absence of roads to the interior, which prevents the 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 he harmful to the native people. He is of opinion that the continuation! erf the Expropriation Board as plantation owners is undesirable.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11932, 12 September 1924, Page 7
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193BACKWARD NATIVES New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11932, 12 September 1924, Page 7
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