No “Beach-Combing” In
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The Solomons
From Our Own Correspondent TULAGI, April 28.
THE regulation prohibiting non-natives from residing on native-owned land is being enforced stringently.
A very desirable regulation in itself, it could be used with a little more discre tion, as it causes some hardship to mis sionaries who are not desirous of owning land, but merely wish to'be convenient to the natives they serve (and who probably have no wish to alienate their ground): and to a few other old and valued residents who have been hard hit in recent years.
It can be safely said that no one in the Group is “beach-combing” or lowering the European prestige, or battening on the natives. This last possibility, to anyone who knows the Solomon Islander, is posi tively humorous.