POSITION AT PAPUA.
INADEQUATE SUBSIDY. SIR H. MURRAY’S WARNING. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrlg-nt. SYDNEY, Deo. '7. : The Lieutenant-Governor of Papua, Sir Hubert Murray, has arrived at Sydney., He stated that unless the Commonwealth subsidy of £40,000 a year to Papua Is restored to the previous level of £50,000 he feared that it would be impossible for the police to hold their present line in the back country, near the old German border. Failure to hold the line might entail the loss of many lives. ’
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19124, 8 December 1933, Page 7
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85POSITION AT PAPUA. Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19124, 8 December 1933, Page 7
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