PROGRESS OF PAPUA.
GOVERNOR'S ANNUAL REVIEW. By Telofraph—Frees Association—Copyright
Mclbourno, December 19. Tli© annual report of tlio LieutenantGovernor of Papua shows a decrease in imports and a good increaso in cx~ ports. The total revenue was £8249. Ten thousand acre? more land wero brought under cultivation during; tlio .year, lvliilo the European population increased by 152. Native labour was olForing more freely on tlio plantations. Tlio natives arc showing more readiness to accept European remedies for disease, and submitted freely to vaccination, believing it a protection against, tlio influences of sorcery.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1937, 20 December 1913, Page 5
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91PROGRESS OF PAPUA. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1937, 20 December 1913, Page 5
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