Japan And Mandates

BRITAIN has officially announced that Japan, having ceased to be a member of the League of Nations, has no legal right to claim equality of treatment in commercial matters in mandated terri tories. On the other hand, the Anglo- Japanese Commercial Treaty of 1921 ex tends to certain of the mandated territories administered by the British Government, and, by virtue of that, Japan possesses most favoured nation rights, on a recipro city basis, as long as these extensions re main in force.

Mr. W. Tail by, Treasurer and Collector of Customs in the Cook Islands Adminis tration, left Rarotonga in December on furlough, which will include a holiday trip to Java.

Mr. S. H. Gander, Seventh Day Adven tist missionary of Upper Ramu, Central New Guinea, reached Sydney with his wife and 11-year-old daughter, Gwen, by the Tanda on December 19. The natives among whom he worked for several years were primitive, but remarkably ingenious in many things. He saw cleverly con trived traps to catch the field rats, which provided a favourite dish. The natives lived in tribal settlements, the men of a tribe occupying one large hut, while the women lived separately, sharing their huts with the pigs, with which every tribe was provided. In his work Mr.

Gander was assisted by 20 native teachers, who had been trained at the mission’s educational establishment, on the Island of Mussau, St. Matthias group.