Theme Song Of Labour
p. 35 · Read in the full issue
Ordinance
Letter to the Editor the new New Guinea ordinance rela tive to native labour has been printed and is for sale.
On reading- through it one is struck with a paragraph that so often occurs that I think it should be called the Theme Song of Native Labour: “Penalty, One Hundred Pounds.”
Let us glance through the laws of civilised countries of the world and see where and for what offences this penalty is shown. Then compare.
It is about time that steps were taken to curb the extreme lengths to which New Guinea law-makers and judges seem prone to go.
I am, etc..
N.G. Resident.
Aitape, N.G., 21/9/’35.