Talks on Papua
PAPUA, one of the most rugged and difficult colonial territories in the Commonwealth, was recently visited by Bruce Broadhead, rural broadcasts officer at 1YA. Now returned to New Zealand after a year’s travel in the South Pacific and Australia, Bruce has recorded four talks about the geography of Papua, its people and their customs, its agriculture and administration. The talks are to be broadcast by all YA and YZ stations on Thursdays at 9.15 p.m., starting on July 18. In two months Bruce Broadhead covered a great deal of ground in Papua, travelling by aircraft, patrol launch, canoe and on foot. What he found most interesting was the diversity of the native people which poses many problems for the administrators. The villagers have virtually no common bond between them, and some 500 languages or cialects are spoken. Among the people almost every stage of human development is represented-from the stone age onwards. Although the Australian Government is developing the territory as quickly as possible, political advancement depends on the Papuans’ standard of education and, Bruce Broadhead says, this standard is still very low.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 935, 12 July 1957, Page 6
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186Talks on Papua New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 935, 12 July 1957, Page 6
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