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St Planters Gazette
Valuable File for P.I.M.
WE are indebted to a good friend in the Solomon Islands who has sent us a complete file of The Planters Gazette, which was the journal of the Solomon Islands Planters’ Association. There were nine issues, between December, 1920, and May, 1923.
The journal was edited with great energy and spirit; and, during its brief lifetime, it appears to have directed at tention to many public grievances, and secured a number of much-needed re forms.
It is noted, however, that several mat ters complained of in 1922-23 are still the subject of complaint, thirteen years after wards!
An old 8.5.1. planter, writing to us re cently, said: “The Government officials here hated the journal and eventually succeeded in blocking it, by rather pecu liar methods. Had it still been going, they would not have got away with the things they do.”