GERMAN MANDATES
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Australia's Adminiitratioo k First Class REPLY T0 MR. SAVAGE
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(Regeived fi, 19-30 a-m.) 3YDNEY, May «, *'It is qlear that Mr, Savage did not know what he was talking about,1 1 de-" elared Sir George Pearce, Minister o* External Affairs, replying to Mr. Savage's comment on the Empire ®s nd* ministratiqn of mandated German t#r4 ritories, in which hq said? VI im just a little afraid that the Empi?q is not nsing her territories as well as ihe could." Rir George Pearce added? "Au ftf as New Guinea is concerned, the Australian administra'tion has always r«H
ceived a first-class pass from the Man-f dates Commission, who are experts well qualified to judge. The Hon. W, M. Hughes, recalling his Prime Ministership in 1919 when the mandate and New Guinea was taken over, said: "Wonderful work has heen done there since then. The white population has increased by 400 per cent. and exports have increased by 500 per cent* "In 1914 Germany had 200 soldiera there and Australia now has only one."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 93, 6 May 1937, Page 5
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