Laws For Trade Stores
p. 81 · Read in the full issue
In New Guinea
rE Trading with Natives Ordinance, 1946, was issued in Canberra in November.
It provides that only licensed persons may trade with natives in Papua-New Guinea and if such traders charge natives more than non-natives he may be fined £lOO. He must prominently display a list of all the goods he has to sell, and prices of same; and, where goods are sold by weight, the containers must display the net weight. The trader cannot refuse to sell his goods to a native if the native tenders the cash; and his store may be inspected by a DO or his deputy at any time, J