Growing Unrest Of Natives In Papua
(New Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL, June 16. Natives in New Guinea are finding the heady wine of emancipation too much for them, according to Mr I. R. Wilson, who has just returned from two years in Port Moresby.
The natives were already selecting the houses and cars, belonging to their masters, which they would t?ke over when the Australians left he said today. Mr Wilson said the natives could not understand that the Europeans had to wort and pay for their possessions and houses. They saw cars, refrigerators and all European possessions being unloaded off ships, and presumed the European popula tion got them for nothing. They wondered why the
ships did not bring anything for them, and with theirlimited reasoning powers believed the white man was keeping all the good things to himself. . A resentment of the white population was growing. Mr Wilson said. Before long there would be trouble between the two races. Since they had been granted the right to drink liquor and to vote, a new arrogance was apparent and attacks on white ■ people, particularly women, were-increasing.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30469, 17 June 1964, Page 3
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