Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 September 1938Vol. IX, No. 2

Pearling Threatened With Extinction

p. 62 · Read in the full issue

Page 6262

Extinction

A DEPUTATION, comprising Captain

A, G. Gregory and Mr. A. Clark, master pearlers, met the Commonwealth Minister for the Interior ((Mr. John McEwen) at Darwin on August 19 and urged that a bounty on pearl-shell be given to meet the increasing competition by Japanese. It sought also the estab lishment of a pool. Captain Gregory emphasised that only Government help could save the pearling centres of Thurs day Island and Broome from extinction.

The Minister said he would submit their case to the Government, which, he was confident, “would give it a most sym pathetic hearing’'.

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