Corporal Punishment

For B.S.I. Natives

IT was officially announced in August by the High Commissioner for the Wes tern Pacific (Sir Murchison Fletcher) that legislation will be introduced im mediately to empower courts in the Bri tish Solomon Islands to order floggings in cases where natives are convicted of certain offences against white women.

This development is the result of rep resentations made recently to the British Colonial Office, London, by Sir Murchison Fletcher, on the question of native crime in the Solomons.

Mr. H. S. Reid, a director of Messrs.

Buka Plantations and Trading Co., left Sydney by the Malaita on August 11 on a visit of inspection to the company’s plan tations in Bougainville.

Group at the official opening of Bulwa’s Night Tennis Court on the Morobe Goldfield, New Guinea, which is believed to be the only night court in the Territory. Mr. O. B. Hart (Chief Constructional Engineer) served the first ball. The Bulolo Gold Dredging Company gave this court to its em ployees. Mr. Hart (with racquet and ball) is in the centre of the group. Photo, by H. C. Hill.