The polling booth for the General Highlands at Goroka

Abstract

The polling booth for the General Highlands at Goroka on 18th March, 1961. At six central points throughout the Territory of Papua and New Guinea hundreds of voting representatives listened for four days to policy speeches by the 108 candidates standing for election to the Legislative Council. Voting representatives at each centre were instructed in the ballot system and each representative in turn completed a ballot paper and placed it in the ballot box. The successful candidate at Goroka was Kondom Agaundo, who took his seat in the Legislative Council on 10th April, 1961, with five other elected native members: John Guise (Eastern Papua), Simoi Paradi (Westren Papua), Somu Sigob (New Guinea Coastal), Nicholas Brokam (New Guinea Islands) and Vin Tobaining (New Britain). There are also six elected non-native members.