- Series
- Pacific portraits
- Air Date
- 1965-05-04
- Duration
- 00:29:15
- Episode Description
- Problems of administration of the native peoples in the area.
- Series Description
- This series explores various aspects of the Pacific region through dramatization, narration, commentary and music.
- Subject(s)
- Creator(s)
- WHA (Radio station : Madison, Wis.) (Producer)University of Wisconsin (Producer)Schmidt, Karl (Production Manager)Reid, J. C. (John Cowie), 1916-1972 (Writer)
- Contributors
- Reid, J. C. (John Cowie), 1916-1972 (Speaker)
- Genre(s)
- Geographic Region(s)
- regions
- Time Period
- 1961-1970
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Pacific portrays radio sketches of men and women whose lives
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illustrate times and places south of the equator.
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In the Pacific. White
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man and black man.
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That you spoke with in their name lives the future.
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Will.
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Her uber humorous programming in a series of specific portraits produced
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by radio station WAGA of the University of Wisconsin under a grant from the Educational
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Television and Radio Center in collaboration with the National Association of educational
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broadcasters now speaking to you from Auckland New Zealand.
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Here is the planner and writer of the series Professor John Reed.
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How do we see the administrator. A man in an office perhaps behind a
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desk cabinet with documents bound in red tape. A dull dog buried in a
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routine from which all color and excitement have been great but in the
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Pacific yesterday and today the reality is otherwise.
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In this program we pay tribute to the Pacific administrators in the Person of the greatest of them
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all say he would marry the words you would hear him speak. Have been
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taken from his own writing.
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After Greenland the largest island of the world. Half as big again as Britain. New Guinea a huge
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bird hub ring over the continent of Australia. In this black island of Oceania beats the very
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heart Melanie for the.
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Land of mountain swamps and dense jungle Land of snakes alligators an exquisite orchid
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land a repellent gloom and heart piercing beauty domain of headhunters and cannibals.
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I thought of it all day Saavedra reading in my call it keeps going in search of
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the lockers.
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Landed on those rugged shores in the year of our bloated Lord. Fifteen twenty nine
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in every creek we tested were traces of gleaming yellow metal. I named the
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land Delora the island of Gaul.
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After de Saavedra came Louis Taurus forging through the strait that bears his name.
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The natives of East LA Delora are naked squat fierce savages armed with spears and
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arrows as we landed for food and water. They resisted us on the beaches and stood their
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ground valiantly before our hell birds but we slew them and took a dozen prisoners to
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show to his most Catholic Majesty.
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Philip the Second despite Taurus glowing account of the fertility of the island of gold
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Spain would have none of this jungle shrouded in cannibal infested territory after
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Taurus other venturers nibbled at its coastline. Dampier Bampton out.
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And as the nineteenth century dawned the Dutch spinning their web of trade through the Pacific
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claimed the western half of the island. A decade later Lieutenant you will annex the eastern
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part for Britain.
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But in Parliament we must repudiate you as impetuous an extension of
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this month's truce tropical island. It will be nothing but an embarrassment. But
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we can't afford to expend energy and money on a land with no economic
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prospects.
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In 1873 the Explorer Captain Morris B proclaims the territory British
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again the government repudiated the claim.
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But 10 years later Britain's hand was forced the Australian government has certain
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information that Germany intends to seize northern New Guinea if the Germans take
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full possession they could dominate Australia. Britain must act at once.
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Fear had done what in treaty could not. A few days after Germany
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planted her iron heel in New Guinea Britain declared Southern New Guinea a protectorate under the
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name of papa. Twelve years later the new Australian Commonwealth took under her own wing
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the problem country. The grim featured land nobody wanted. It seemed a
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stern place indeed to its first administrator so William McGregor as he landed in
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1895.
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What tribes of people are various of the scenery pygmies Tallman
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Polynesians Melanesians. Some are cannibals. Some head hunters.
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Some. Gentle kindly people. They have got two things in common.
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They're all stone age man and they are all ruled by sorcery and superstition.
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Through anarchical boring villages over mountain and across river and swamp
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where you McGregor tirelessly pursued knowledge of the land and its savage peoples.
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But now the protection against Germany was secured. Australia saw papa as a tiresome
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burden. So the country languished until the coming of the forty year old Hubert
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Murray's lawyer and veteran of the Boer War.
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I was acting administrator when Hubert Murray was appointed judicial officer in
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1900 and for I had already much about his ability. He had a good
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Oxford degree and the command of languages he was known as an able lawyer and
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a rather unorthodox Crown Prosecutor in his young days. He had been
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addicted to drink but had abruptly become and remained an absolute
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abstainer. When I first set eyes on his ramrod figure his square
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shoulders and his serious face with clipped military mustache. I knew that a
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vital new chapter of Pop was history had begun.
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Murray attacked the strange environment with zest in its simplest terms. The
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problem of Popper was to him a problem of people white men and black
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men.
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Now it does pop up and in there harmony lies the future.
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He soon realized that during twenty years of British occupation little had been done to lift the
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natives from ignorance or to modify their superstitions. But his first
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task was justice to translate the codes creeds and precedents of the white
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man's law books into puppetland terms the native founded hard to see any
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real reason why the laws men lived by should apply to them.
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For instance they popcorns have a basic courtesy which may provoke what in our eyes is
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a heinous crime. So men charged before me with murder had
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been asked by a sick man to carry him across the river. He was too heavy to carry.
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But they could not be so or rude as to refuse so they killed him as the best way out of the
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difficulty. The large audience of natives in court when the case was dried all
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agreed that the conduct of the prisoners had been perfectly correct except in
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one very important particular. The sick man had been
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murdered on a government road and this was inexcusable. The government
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had some queer objection to murder. Enjoy it was bad taste to kill a man on a government
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road. They should have taken the sick native into the bush and murdered him there.
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Stalking endlessly across country in a land where distances were measured by days and
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trying cases from village to village judge Marie plunged deeper and deeper into the
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depths of native psychology. Two villages went to war because one insisted on
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wearing a certain ornament. A man was convicted of killing another as a relief to his feelings when his
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own wife nagged him. And everywhere he found evidence of a deeper
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primitiveness.
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She focused. Have you ever eaten.
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Of course I have. What do you think I am. Am I a small boy or woman.
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Am I out. Nor can't you be my of course I have beaten man.
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But you don't do it. No I don't believe man is good. Why
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don't you. No TV no TV.
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There were other ancient practices among the tribes which Murray met with fairness a sheriff's
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head hunting in the south is associated with the naming of children.
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They took any warrior. Before he kicks the head finds out the name of his victim and the
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name becomes his property.
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The whole social life are there to getit is directed toward success in his herd
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the children are brought up on stories by their elders of their exploits how they look
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among the trees watching for their prey and how they stalk him and seize him and
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decapitate him with their bamboo knife. These children look forward to nothing else but the
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time when they too will return laden with hoods and richly
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furnished with names.
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Thanks to Mary. All this was soon to be changed.
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Hunting is dying as government influence advances. The pig's head
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which has been substituted for a man's probably accords with normal evolution
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though I hardly think it would be possible to get up as much enthusiasm over the head of a pig
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as over the head of a tribal enemy.
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Mary was slowly coming to learn the contours. And the variety of native customs
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often Murray's white hand rested a moment and a black one. And he began to
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realize that for all his primitiveness the pop one was a human be
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his brother. For others it seemed black enemies. Animals parading as men vile
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cannibals. Mary looked beneath the mask.
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There is a widespread idea that the need to visit China and must be treated as a
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joke. The truth of course. Is that the native is a
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man. He has a man's passion. And a man's
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part to hate and love. But he is a very ignorant
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man whose ways of thought are strange to us. If we must use an
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analogy.
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We should argue. Not from the Chinaman but from the president.
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Mary felt that the current administration had failed to grapple with the problem of native
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backwardness peaceful penetration not intimidation became
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his guiding principle. The native could not be pushed across the cultural gulf
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by white man's coercion. He must be led to build his own bridge. But first
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in this land there was moral Deadwood to hack out. For instance when a murder or an attack
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by natives a taken place armed whites sallied out to shoot a tribe and burned villages
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punitive expeditions ignore the individual and make war on the tribe.
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Returning with victory after killing the offenders and beating you second
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cousin stealing his grandmother's pig.
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He abolished the primitive vengeance of the punitive expedition but to make the proper ones
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understand the very notion of law.
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Mary found was like walking through glue decided to extend the needy
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of the constabulary system developed by William McGregor.
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With improved status they became my most valuable interns. Not as detectors of
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crime but as policeman in their own districts where they share the people's language and
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customs. They had advantages no white man could aquire a new uniform consists of a blue
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serge jumper and a native skillet with a red band. Now heirloom almost
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too loyal. They weep bitterly when the patrol goes out and they are left behind.
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Judge Murray's police were living proof that the chasm could be bridged although they never numbered
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more than 2000. They kept in order thousands of natives in one thousand three thousand square
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miles of trackless papa.
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The last quake man Putin the territory was a government officer in 116. The natives at
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once fled to the Bush and the rest was regarded as almost hopeless. Yet in two weeks the
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21 men had been fitted out by the new police without the firing of a shop or the shutting of a drop of blood.
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I've never.
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Heard of any of that that I don't know that I've
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got a better idea.
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Law and some order had come to papa. But New Guinea was still groping in the Stone Age.
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It seemed an impossible task to enlighten the natives to develop the country to coordinate
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the settlers aspirations.
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The New Guinea settlers sought like this never before in history had a civilized power and had taken the
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guidance of a people so deeply sunk in barbarism. The gap between the whites and the
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natives in Papua is immeasurable in terms of time. Britain at the time
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of the Roman invasion Gaul at the same period. Egypt 4000 years
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before Christ were more advanced in every way than the Papuans of the early twentieth
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century.
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Belief in sorcery is universal here. All deaths other than those by violence
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I believe caused by some witch or wizard. The natives live in constant.
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Look the reason. Every rustle in the trees every noise in the bush every
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figure that passes in the night is evidence of the Sorcerer readies deadly work.
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To fit the savage mentality. I had often to use odd methods.
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One of my constables fell under the anger of a sorcerer who told the constable he would
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sing him to death.
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The constable fell ill so I sent for the sorcerer who came painted in oil
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on the verandah of Government House after he gorged himself with food and smoked my
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tobacco. I approached the subject. Already. He
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is my friend. Those who harm him are my
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enemies. Therefore I say to you. That you
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must cease waving the spillers which wakes him. That policeman is my friend.
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You have eaten my food yet you would kill my friend. So
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you are not my friend but my enemy. If that policeman dies you
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shall suffer more than he. All the rest of your life you shall suffer and you shall
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die alone without a friend to help you.
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He left quickly despite his defiance but in the evening he was back and
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hands clasped to his stomach his face contorted in pain and fear.
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Imagination his chief ally in sorcery was working upon him. It
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didn't enter his mind that his own gluttony might be the cause. I gave him a dose
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of corrective medicine and one him that if the sickness recurred so
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would his own. When he learned of Koufax pain he began to
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recover at once that sorcerer caused me no more trouble.
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A white man's magic was driving out the serpent's of superstition substituting
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hypodermics and laxatives for snakes tongues and incantations as it had substituted
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pigs heads for human heads and Mary carried the route of justice and human understanding
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deep into matted forests and along rapid strewn rivers with panting subordinates
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he waded creeks splashed in his clothes through the stinking mangrove swamps and up the
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difficult hills.
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Always he was the first to enter strange villages and risk panics but arrows
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the chief village of sweltered in the penetrating tropical heat
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get excited savages shouted and danced first in a frenzy of apprehension
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vociferous welcome everywhere was mud and decay.
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Primitive huts built on long stilts thrust into the mud but accessible only by
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crazy platforms refuse lay everywhere and floated on the melancholy
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streams Skolem's another human bones were hung on posts and walls.
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The people themselves were almost animal in appearance and movement.
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Yet Murray often found the primitive headhunters among whom he moved with iron calm
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less difficult than some of the white man many settlers feel no duty to the
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natives.
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They ridicule attempts to educate them is humanitarian rubbish. The negative
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measures they frequently oppose the government with genuine horror. The
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investors realize that negative evidence might now be believed in court that a
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native might get a verdict against his employer and that a white man might even be
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sent to prison on native evidence.
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But Murray had the tough courage of a reformer. For him the government's duty towards the
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natives was paramount. And his relations with the Australian Government was often prickly.
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New Guinea was remote. It was something of an embarrassment. The settlers felt Mary cared more for naked
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natives than for their commercial interests. Yet he had come to love this
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ugly sweltering land. And it wasn't his destiny into it.
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White men and black men that were his
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spartan life put the governor above suspicion.
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I was astonished at the austerity in which Mary lived. His home in Port Moresby was
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devoid of convenience or comfort uncarpeted elastically severe.
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His work began the day he liked and continued until late afternoon. Then he would ride
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over rough country steep rugged boulders through big tropical
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sun. After dusk he returned for a lonely dinner and worked right into the night.
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He never leaned back in a chair but always sat bolt upright and
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under yielding figure the very picture of stern integrity.
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Murray was a lonely man cut off from almost all that for most men makes life worth
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living. His wife found popular intolerable and went to live in England. He saw her only on his
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brief far spaced leaves. His only recreation was reading good to Milton
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and the Greek books sent to him by his brother Gilbert Mary fame professor of Greek at Oxford
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in the companion Les knights.
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Hubert merry drew his consolation from the repartee.
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Not with glory but with peace. May the long summers find me cry.
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For gentleness. Very sound is magic. And her usage is
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all wholesome.
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But the fiercely great hath little music on his road and falling when the
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hand of God should move most deep and desolate.
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Form
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the First World War burst into the Pacific and with it Australian annexation of German New
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Guinea which continued under a separate unless humanitarian administration the Murrays is
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fight against irresponsible white exploitation and against party politics continued unabated
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until in one thousand twenty one.
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Some of the settlers sent a telegram direct to the king persistent persecution by Governor
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Murray has caused unrest amongst white population appeals to Australian
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Commonwealth have been fruitless. Entreat your Majesty to intervene and
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remove Mr British Empire.
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The absurdity of this telegram led to a swing in Murray's favor. From then onwards
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Nobody could doubt that he was the one man with only populous interests at heart who
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had exiled himself for the sake of the people the government neglected and the traitors
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despised or tried to exploit.
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Who else but Marie has edges planed smooth by long experience of men and their ways could
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better deal with the odd characters the Drifters adventurers miners self-seekers have
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surged into pop or seeking the elusive golden copper and rubber one Greek trader
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for instance was refused a license in the midst of a heavy rainstorm he went to Moray for an
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explanation.
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I have come sir to ask why my application for a recruiter's license has been
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refused. The reason sir is that you are a man of very bad character. All you
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want a drunkard a thief and a libertine and you are quite unfit to hold a
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license for anything or that is the reason. Oh of course that is all right all
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right yes yes yes I thought it was because I was a Greek and I came here to tell you that it
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was the Greeks who civilised Europe. My dear sir I am fully aware that the Greeks
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civilised not only Europe of the whole world. I have the greatest admiration for them.
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In fact I have a brother who is a famous professor of Greek. But you happen to be a man
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of infamous character and I shall not give you a license. It is quite all right. I
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understand perfectly. He shook hands and parted friends.
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I have always kept a sneaking admiration for the blaggard who put the reputation of his country
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so far above his own.
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Ignorance.
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At last Murray's tireless struggle for humane is but development of the territory won
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him the united affection and respect of the settlers especially as he resisted the
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roughshod exploitation which developed in newly annexed New Guinea. He
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grappled with other basic problems among them that have a common language to replace the
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multiplicity of native tongues he favored English as much as he despised
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pigeon English pidgin is a vile jibberish.
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Perhaps the stupidest linguistic device ever invented.
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Natives could learn real English as readily. Why should it be easier for a native to say
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one fellow boy than one boy does all the time he cried too much if
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I had a long box really convey the idea of a lady singing and playing the piano.
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The success of Marie's system had made him one of the leading administrators of the British Empire.
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This was recognised by a knighthood one thousand twenty five. He was now 64 but as
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active as ever.
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Recently I went on a journey into the interior with the lieutenant governor. We did
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nine miles in the first afternoon just to break a scene. The next day we
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covered 23 miles and on the third another 20 miles. Heavy
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rain fell that night. It was still raining the next morning when at 6 a.m. The governor
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called Are You Ready. Although I was 20 years his junior he
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wore me out.
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But Murray's Sands had almost run out in 1938 at 76 years
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of age. He had ruled popular for 33 years an unparalleled feat of colonial
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administration and his fading eyes surveyed a proud achievement.
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Trade exceeded over a million pounds. Control was established over the whole area.
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The entire white population including the men who had sent a telegram to the King 17 years before
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signed a tribute to his support of achievement and two cultures
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lived in peace together like men and black men.
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Let his pipe work and in their harmony lies the future.
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Mary's last years were crossed by anxiety as he watched the tide of war left
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at the shores of New Guinea weary and racked with pain and anxiety he stuck to
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his post. Early in 1940 he decided to go on a tour of inspection
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of his beloved territory. The effort was too great. And on
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February 27 the completely worn out so he bit married died in the
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land to which he had selflessly given his whole adult life
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for 40 days and nights.
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The watch fires burned in the MOTU villages. The soft trappings of native
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drums sounded incessantly as the populations mourned the white father
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of the dead.
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The great governor.
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We people remember him kindly we shall think of him always
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he governs us well who is like him and that is none.
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He was the best of men. Our children and their children will talk of him.
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He promised us I will not I will die in
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his words with the words of a man on his body lines in
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ground
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shake.
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Shake.
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Thank. You.
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And now here is Professor Reid to say a few closing words.
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The great Mary erect came to an end in the midst of the Second World War in
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1900 to the Japanese invaded New Guinea and Popplewell. American
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under Australian troops expelled the intruders and the territories were combined
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under a single Australian administration. In 1949. A new
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positive policy has led to steady developments in Native Welfare economic
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progress and settlement. But what has been done and is being done
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rests finally upon the achievement of so he would marry. It was he who
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saw beyond the brute facts of trade and exploitation to an idea of
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human brotherhood in which the more advanced races would lift the savage ones to their
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own level. The vision of the early discoverers was echoed in the work
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of this dedicated man the lonely I'm swiveling architect of a
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new and more humane Pacific.
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Pacific portrait sketches of men and women whose lives illustrate times and
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places south of the equator in the Pacific Ocean. These
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programs are produced by radio station WAGA of the University of Wisconsin
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under a grant from the Educational Television and Radio Center.
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Professor John C. REED of Auckland University Auckland New Zealand is the writer and
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planner of the series production by Carla Schmidt. Music by Don vaguely.
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These programs are distributed by the National Association of educational broadcasters.
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This is the national educational radio network.
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