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Koitaki Rubber Closes Down Effect of Ward's Decree
PRODUCTION of Koitaki Para Rubber Estates, Ltd., Papua, for the year ended June 30, was 857,283 lb., com pared with about 500,000 lb. in pre-war years.
Yields for the first three months of the current year were: July, 78,984 lb.; August, 70,754 lb.; September, 66,256 lb.
But production has now ceased, because practically all the native labourers have left the plantation following the Aus tralian Government’s never-to-be-for gotten announcement that all indentured labour contracts were cancelled as on October 15.
Veteran Mission Teacher Retires
ON the October “Matua,” for New Zealand, went Miss A. M. Griffen who has spent almost 30 years in the Colony of Fiji as a teacher in the Methodist Mission Indian schools. Miss Griffen has been in ill-health for some time.
Before she left, a farewell gathering was held in the Dudley ]House ior Indian girls in Suva, where Miss Gnffen, until recently, was fnends and party, a mo n g them Hari cat Kin, Mr. A. H. Phi P «.. Te ’ achers « uSfmTR Sahu Khan, Mr. A W.
McMillan Dr C M Gopalan, and the Rev. W. Green.