Licence Needed For Native
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Letter to the Editor THE natives of Mangaia, robbed by hurricane of their crops, have now had taken from them, the few shill ings they made by selling beadwork in USA and Australia. An export license is now demanded for all such sales outside of New Zealand.
The inevitable result is the collapse of the “pupu”-trade. is there no limit to the NZ Government’s greed and avarice, and its jealous prohibition of all enter prise?
The “small” traders in the Cook Island are already ruined; the natives are im poverished; and our administration then expects Cook Islanders to rise up and call it blessed.
The Government officials, of course, are secure enough. But what about the rest of us?
I am, etc.,
E. Gold.
Mangaia, Cook Is., October, 1944.
It is reported that Mr. J. M. Niehol, who was a well-known British official in the service of the New Hebrides Adminis tration (he was recently District Officer in Tanna) was killed in a motor accident in the Condominium, in December.