NEW GUINEA MANDATE
NO CHANGE IN POLICY IN AUSTRALIA. STATEMENT BY SIR EARLE PAGE. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. CANBERRA, October 14. The Leader of the Opposition, Mr Curtin, asked the Acting-Prime Minister, Sir Earle Page, in the House of Representatives today whether there was any question of relinquishing the mandate over New Guinea. Mr Curtin also directed attention to remarks by Hr W. M. Hughes, Minister for External Affairs, recently concerning New. Guinea, during which the Minister stated. “The Mandates Commission has handed a portion of Nev Guinea to Australia as a sacred trust, and any talk of surrendering that trust could only be described as cowardly and unjust." Sir Earle Page replied: “The principle underlying Mi - Hughes’s statement is in accord with the Government’s views and policy so far as New Guinea is concerned. That policy has remained unchanged since it was stated in the Senate in 1936 by Sir George Pearce, then Minister of External Affairs.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1938, Page 5
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158NEW GUINEA MANDATE Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1938, Page 5
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