Trading In The Solomons
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“A Trader,” writing from Tulagi, Solo mon Islands, declares that ‘‘certain people down here have an arrangement with a Chinese trader. They always let him know when a payment is going to be made to their native labour; and, when he arrives, and is all ready to ‘trade,’ they pay out the wages. In return for this, the overseer gets some sort of commis sion, in trade or kind. At one time, the usual thing, for giving a trader an ‘open go’ at newly paid labour was 10 per cent, of the cash takings.”
Comment seems superflous!
Mr. R. A. Clinton, superintending engi neer to Lakekamu Goldfields (Papua) Development N.L., who has been in Aus tralia reporting to his principals the re sults of progress made in Papua, left for Port Moresby by the Montoro on October f..
Miss Nancy Armstrong, of Cambridge, New Zealand, has been accepted by the Melanesian Mission as a worker in the Solomon Islands. She left Australia for Siota, where she will be stationed, by the Malaita on October 5.