Appraisal of Two Land Settlement Schemes rn the Gazelle Peninsula New Britain.

Abstract

Little is known of the course and methods of development associated with indigenous land settlement schemes in the Territory of Papua
and New Guinea. Practically no systematic study of any of the schemes already in operation has been undertaken. (2 ) This has given rise to a great many opinions which are based on vague impressions and influenced by preconceived ideas on the desirability or otherwise of land settlement and of a certain size of individual holding. None has been the subject of these opinions more than the two schemes in the Gazelle Peninsula which are discussed in this article.