Repudiationists in Malaita, S.I.
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From Our Own Correspondent
Tulagi, Dec. 1.
"OECHUITERS have complained that several natives in Malaita have signed on at the new rate, taking their advance of £3, including their tobacco, calico, etc., had their food on board for a few days, and then refused to complete the contract.
In some cases the recruits have de camped with their advance of money. The advance money has been refunded, on a few occasions, by the recruits’ friends, but the beach advance of calico and to bacco has been kept.
Very little notice appears to be taken by the Government of the recruiters’ plight, and more than one recruiter is out of pocket, being in some cases minus his advance payment, and his issue of tobacco and calico.
Dr. W. J. Williams, British Consul in Tahiti, returned to Papeete recently by the Maunganui after an absence of several months in San Francisco, U.S.A.
His sojourn in America enabled him to completely recover from his recent ill ness.