No Rubber Tax for Papua
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Prom Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, Aug. 25.
IT is understood that, as a result of representations by a deputation which recently waited upon the acting Lt.-Governor, and by non-official members of the Council at its recent sittings, the Government has decided not to introduce the rubber tax this year.
The gold tax, and the new primage duty, already imposed, will remain, however.
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchellhill, formerly of the Solomon Islands, are now in Aus tralia. He resigned his position as In spector with Lever Bros, in order to en list in the AT.F.
Mrs. Kit McKerlie, whose husband owns a plantation and trade stores in the Western Solomons, is now hostess at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Samarai, Papua.
Miss Joyce James, of Victoria, will shortly leave for Fiji to take up an ap pointment as Teaching Sister on the staff of the Methodist Mission.