Gilbert Island Lend-Lease

HERE is a modest example of lend lease in reverse. Since the Ameri cans landed in the Gilberts the women of those islands have manufac tured and supplied to Service Command through reciprocal aid nearly one quar ter of a million pieces of leaf thatch for use in the construction of warehouses, messes and other buildings. These native type structures find favour with the Americans for two reasons—they can be built very auicklv and they are beauti fully cool. —Harold Cooper.

Dr. F. O. Theile represented the New Guinea Lutheran Mission at the confer ence on indentured labour, held in Sydney on December 1 and 2.