NEW GUINEA MANDATE
SIR GRANVILLE RYRIE IN AUSTRALIA’S DEFENCE NATIVES CONTENTED Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) Itecd. noon. GENEVA, Monday. The Australian High. Commissioner in London, Sir Granville Ryrie, in a speech to the Mandates Committee of the League of Nations, deprecated the references of certain previous speakers to temporary mandates. He said, it might cause great harm. There was an inadequate appreciation in many quarters as to what the mandate system really implied. For example, the bringing up of natives of most primitive mentality in such a wide area as New Guinea was almost an insuperable task, but impartial observers agreed that under the last eight years’ administration, the natives of New Guinea were happy and contented. Sir Granville paid tribute to the mission’s services in New Guinea, which were saving Australia considerable expenses. “I say that so far as New Guinea is concerned, Australia is fully seized of its obligations. Affairs are soundly administered within the spirit and the letter of the Covenant.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 770, 17 September 1929, Page 9
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167NEW GUINEA MANDATE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 770, 17 September 1929, Page 9
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