[5] Nominations for the three elected seats closed on 9 August, with five candidates put forward.
The New Guinea Islands seat was contested by the incumbent Don Barrett and John Stokie, a plantation manager.
In New Guinea Mainland, the incumbent Carl Jacobsen did not run, resulting in a contest between the theatre owner Harry Starr and optometrist and planter George Whittaker.
Incumbent MLC Ernest James was the only candidate in Papua.
[8] Later in the year missionary representative Frank George Lewis left the territory and was replaced in the Council by Philip Strong.