MANDATORY SYSTEM.
AUSTRALIA AND NEW GUINEA.
SIR GRANVILLE RYRIE AT GENEVA. (Australian Press Association—United Service.) GENEVA, Sept. 16. In the course of a speech before the Mandates Committee to-day, Sir Granville Ryrie, Australia’s High Commissioner, deprecated the references of certain previous speakers to “temporary mandates.” These references, Sir Granville stated, might cause great harm. There was an inadequate appreciation in many quarters of wliat the mandates system really implied. For example, the governing of natives of the most primitive mentality in such a wide area as New Guinea was almost an insuperable task, but impartial observers agreed that after eight years’ administration the natives of New Guinea were happy and contented. General Ryrie paid a tribute* to the missions’ services in New Guinea. Considerable expense had been saved Australia. “As far as New Guinea is concerned, Australia is fully seized of - the obligations,” Sir Granville Ryrie concluded. “Affairs are soundly administered within the spirit and letter of the covenant.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 248, 18 September 1929, Page 7
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159MANDATORY SYSTEM. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 248, 18 September 1929, Page 7
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