NEW GUINEA MANDATE
AUSTRALIAN REPORT POPULATION DWINDLING By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright GENEVA, Saturday. The High Commissioner for Australia. Sir Joseph Cook, in presenting >his report on New Guinea to the Mandates Commission, said the system of control included the control of new districts, chiefly in order to gain the confidence of the native population. The outlook generally was satisfactory. but in two of the islands the population was dwindling owing to the natives buying rice instead of planting food, and also because they practised infanticide.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 81, 27 June 1927, Page 1
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