B.S.I. Planters’

Association

From Our Own Correspondent.

Tulagi, Sept. 6.

It seems a pity that the Planters’ As sociation is now moribund or defunct..

The Association, if a little interest could have been maintained, particularly among: the smaller companies and private plan ters, might have done a power of good.

Representatives of the larger companies cannot be accused of indifference; they made every effort to get the lesser interests to show the same keen ness. Possibly a little quite unwarranted suspicion of the bigger firms may have contributed to the indifference of the lesser folk. This suspicion was not justified, as the more smaller men, the more votes (when interests clashed) would be against the large firms. At the present time certainly—and one would imagine, always—interests should be identical, and it is a great pity the Association is not revived.

There is now a chance of publicity in. the “P.I.M.,” and it is to be remembered how helpful, in an earlier depression, the “Planters’ Gazette” was to the old Association. The members of the edi torial board of that publication bore the burden of editing, and most of the writing and a large part of the cost of printing and publishing, but they did much good.