Rice in Relation To Rehabilitation
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Rehabilitation
From a Special Correspondent LAE, August 23.
EVEN if one has a line of boys, these days, the greatest rehabilitation headache is not over. The problem of feeding them is a large one, with rice (which makes up the bulk of their issue) at about four times its pre-war price.
Due to the fact that rice these days comes from Australia, instead of the East, and due also to the fact that Aus tralia insists upon levying an “export duty” upon it, rice on the beach in Lae is now £5l/10/- per ton. Up on the gold fields it is £6O per ton.
Mr. P. C. Pollard—who, before evacua tion was a leading member of the local Labour Party—has informed residents that he has been in personal touch with the Minister on the subject of rice ex port tax rebates, and that Mr. Ward is “looking into it.”
One can only hope that Mr. Ward takes a good 100k —and then sees the light.
Dr. J. Taylor, Medical Officer of Health, Suva, has left the Colony for the United Kingdom on leave.