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Pacific Islands Monthly, 19 March 1948Vol. XVIII, No. 8

Ng Trade Stores

p. 26 · Read in the full issue

Letter to the Editor I AM jealous of the trade stores that are making fortunes from black brother, and am of opinion that, in order to give everyone a chance, no trader should be permitted to have more than one store unless there are at least two other opposition stores in between. Some persons are going in for chain stores.

Where there is no competition, prices are high and the native cannot possibly get as fair a go as he should.

I am, etc.,

Pair Play.

Lae, 27/2/48.

A New Caledonian soldier. Augustin Demene, has been postumously awarded the Medaille Militaire and Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery at Hanoi, in Indo china,