Good Type Of Labour House

is a type of building erected to house the native labour (married couples), on Mr. H. 0. Fletcher’s planta tion, “Salami,” in Manus, New Guinea.

Mr. Fletcher works successfully on the theory that it pays to look after one’s native staff, especi ally in regard to food and shelter.

These houses are 18 by 12 feet, and they are water-proof and airy. There is a wash-room and kit chen, with concrete floor at the back of each.

Mr. Fletcher is the type of planter who likes his plantation labourers to “settle in” complete with wives and families.

But the Geneva-con scious Administra tion does not like this at all, and its policy is to allow indentured labour ers to remain on

plantations only for two or three years.

The labourers, in consequence, are usu

ally herded together in barracks without wives or any semblance of a home.