Year’s Work Reviewed

N.G. Planters Meet

From Our Own Correspondent

RABAUL, August 30.

THE Council of the Planters and Traders’ Association of New Guinea held its annual general meeting last month, when a very satisfactory report was submitted.

The Association was founded in 1927 and now has a membership of 84 planters.

The Council decided, in view of the unprecedented depression through which the copra industry is passing, to reduce the annual subscription to £3/3/-, and the entrance fee to £2/2/-.

The Association continues to perform very useful work on behalf of the planting community, and has been instrumental in securing, in conjunction with the R.S.S.I.L.A., the suspension of payments on plantations purchased from the Custodian of Expropriated Properties. ===