NEW GUINEA
RETURN TO GERMANY MINISTER’S OPPOSITI ON BRISBANE, Aug. 29. Sir George Pearce, Minister of External Affairs, who returned .from an official visit to the mandated territories of New Guinea, expressed the hope that tho British Government would hesitate about handing back to Germany her former territory. New Guinea, he claimed, was enjoying greater progress and more rapid development under the present administration than when Germany was in control. It would become of tremendous importance to Australia from the viewpoint of its vast wealth of raw materials.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 204, 31 August 1935, Page 9
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88NEW GUINEA Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 204, 31 August 1935, Page 9
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