Mandated territory AND PAPUA
Australian Administration (Received June 28, 8.30 p.m.) 1 SYDNEY. June 28. A proposal that Papua and the mandated territory of New Guinea, should, be removed from Australian administration and handed over to Great. Britain has been submitted to the Pacific Territories Association. The association’s members comprise almost exclusively former nonofficial residents of Papua and New Guinea. “The harsh and unsympathetic treatment of evacuees,” including * the chiselling down of many claims for compensation,” was given as the mam reason for thje proposal. ' *, B . . . An amendment that the United States be appealed to was moved by the editor of the “Pacific Islands Monthly,”. Mr. W. Robson, who said : “The record of* Australian administration is discreditable. Australia should never have held the teritories. I am certainly not pro-American, but I would like to see the territory under the control of either Great Britain or the United States.” The association rejected the amendment that the United States be appealed to, and the motion proposing that Great Britain take control was deferred for three months.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 233, 29 June 1944, Page 6
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174Mandated territory AND PAPUA Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 233, 29 June 1944, Page 6
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