New Britain Planters
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From Our Own Correspondent.
Rabaul, Apr. 12.
OBJECTION has been taken to the statement, appearing in the March P.I.M., that the planters of New Britain are dissatisfied with the operations of the Executive Council of the Planters’ Asso ciation of New Guinea. It should have been pointed out that, whereas the New Britain branch is merely a local body of planters, the Executive is the body con trolling the many branches in the whole Territory.
Mr. Cutler, president of the New Britain branch of the Planters’ Association of New Guinea, states that the branch was formed solely for the convenience of the majority of planters in the Kokopo area and who, functioning in co-operation with the executive council in Rabaul, would be able to have a wider scope and thus assist the central body.
“There has never been a suggestion of dissatisfaction of any description,” said Mr. Cutler. “The planters of New Guinea realise —only too well —the good work which has been done by the Executive Council.”