Lose Bounty
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Papuan Rubber-Growers May Lose Bounty
From Our Own Correspondent
Pt. Moresby, Nov. 5.
IT is reported that Papuan rubber plan * ters will not continue to receive the Australian bounty.
It is stated that Mr. Fletcher, a Federal officer, who was up here recently to go into the question of bounties, con sidered the inclusion of rubber, but re ported adversely on the question. We hear that some of the planters showed reluctance in giving their lowest costs; and, comparing the cost of production on the Government Rubber Plantation at the Kemp Welch River (east of Port Moresby) with the figures submitted by the planters, the officials came to the con elusion that extravagence might be a cause in some cases of an unsatisfactory condition. The net result of it? all was that the bounty was not recommended.
Hon. R. S. Thacker, Attorney General in Fiji, has been appointed a King’s Counsel.