Editorial Note

Unilever, and similar international combines, can be controlled only by far reaching international action. They defied Governments in the past, and they expect to do so in the future.

Unilever is typical of many. It gained —by efficiencv and bv brilliant organisa tion —so complete a control over the pro duce of the whole world’s oil-seed grow ers that it could do with them as it liked —and especially could it play off coconut oil against soya oil, or cottonseed oil against whale oil or tallow. It flourished enormouslv; but it partially crushed individualism (private enterprise and initiative) among small nroducers in a variety of industries throughout the world.

And this greedv and ruthless monster grew out of Port Sunlight—that model settlement established by the mild and benevolent Lever Brothers!

Mr. H. Larsen, formerly private secre tary to the Resident Commissioner of Rarotonga and lately Assistant Secretary to the Administration of Western Samoa, has been appointed Resident Commis sioner of Niue Island. Mr. J. P. McMahon- Box, the late Resident Commissioner was compelled to return to New Zealand because of ill-health.

Mr. Fritz Krueger, formerly of West ern Samoa, recently sold his bakery business at Avarua, Rarotonga, and lef.for New Zealand.