No Minerals For Japan
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From Our Own Correspondent
Noumea, Nov. 22.
OWING to the ban on minerals to Japan, the Japanese controlled Societe le Fer recently put off 200 of its 600 Javanese workmen.
A second Japanese mining concern, the Societe Miniere de I’Oceanie, following suit, is also slowing up production at its nickel mines at Kua, where 30 of 260 Javanese employees have been dismissed.
They are being found work in other parts of the Colony. Further reductions are expected to be made by the company.
Miss W. E. Neibuhr, who until late last year was a worker for the Seventh Day Adventist Mission in Papua, has been appointed to take charge of the Mission’s training school at Rarotonga, Cook Is lands. She expects to take up duty in January.