No Labour In The Solomons

(From a Planter in the Solomon Islands) CONDITIONS here at the moment (end of July) are far from bright. There is no labour available, and our Administration gives us no help. It appears that the native councils are holding out for higher wages, and have put a Tambu on all recruiting. One report that has reached me is that the leaders have threatened to outlaw any native who makes a labour engagement, and will seize his garden and any prop erty that he leaves behind him.