Bougainville!
p. 53 · Read in the full issue
More Coconuts For
Letter to the Editor IT is rumoured that one result of the Administration party’s recent visit to Bougainville will be that that unfor tunate part of the Territory will again be bombarded with coconuts from Papua.
Fifty thousand of them will be sent, it is said, for the restoration of native groves.
As Buka-Bougainville planters have the greatest difficulty in obtaining labour to cut copra, and find it almost impossible to ship it if and when it is cut, it has been suggested that perhaps they might be -happy to sell the Administrator 50,000 nuts.
Recently nine pigs were sent to Bougainville. This is the sum-total of Administrative effort in restocking the island. It has taken them just 21 years to fulfil this first instalment of their countless promises to local natives.
I am. etc.,
Observer.
Rabaul. NG. July 23.
Mr. Max Babbage is in Sydney on sick leave from his planting interests in Buka.