IN NEW GUINEA
IMPROVING CONDITIONS. GENEVA, November 9. Sir Donald Cameron, formerly M.H. R. for Brisbane, told the Mandates Commission to-day that native interference with white women was commonest in Babaul and the larger townships, but was virtually non-existent in the ■small: r townships and on plantations. The guilty ? h e said, invariably were whipped. After S’? Donald had given an account of the Administrations work in !Ne\v Guinea, the Cominifoiotr had asked for details of the murder of th© prospector Baum, and the natives’ attack on the Leahy brothers. Sir Donald said that the League’s foieed labour convention had been applied to tlfe territory, and the question of establishing a local court was another consideration. i
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1932, Page 7
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117IN NEW GUINEA Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1932, Page 7
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