NEW GUINEA MANDATE
AUSTRALIA’S ATTITUDE HELD AS SACRED TRUST CANBERRA, Ocl. 14. (Received Oct. 14, at 11 p.m.) The Opposition leader, Mr John Curtin, asked the acting Prime Minister in the House of Representat‘ es to-day whether there was any question of relinquishing the mandate over New Guinea. Mr Curtin also directed attention to remarks by Mi W. M Hughes recently concerning New Guinea, during which Mr Hughes stated: “The mandates commission had handed a portion of ! r cv Guinea to Australia as a sacred trust, and any talks of surrender'ig that trust could only be described as cowardly and unjust.” Sir Earle Page replied; “ The t rinciple underlying Mr Hughes’s statement is in accord with the Government's views and policy so far as New Guinea is concerned.” That policy remained unchanged since it was stated in the Senate in 1936 by Sir George Pearce, then Minister of Externa] Affairs.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23631, 15 October 1938, Page 13
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