Challenging Questions.

Letter to the Editor.

In your issue of July 19, 1932, your Tulagi correspondent states (page 31, column 1), that with copra £13 a ton London, we can still produce without loss.

I would be interested to know how he works it out, and if he considers the freight (local) which some people have to pay? I would also be interested to know if he has ever had any experience of producing copra?

In your issue of September 21, 1932, Henry K. Eckoff seems to want to in clude the British Solomons in with New Guinea and Papua in a Crown Colony to be governed from Samarai, and I take it, be under Australia.

I would be interested to know if Mr.

Eckoff wishes to have the same foreign riffraff in control of labour here, as con trols it in Australia? If he does, we don’t.

In the next place, would it not be bet ter for him to wait till he is asked be fore trying to include us in an Aus tralian territory?

I am, etc.,

D. M. Lazarus.

Leuneuwa, B.S.I.

Royal Funeral in Tonga—See opposite page.