No Labour Reserve In New
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Guinea
AFTER 30 years in_ the New Guinea Territory, Mr. C. I. H. Campbell, well known Bougainville planter, is plan ning retirement to Australia, and is ad vertising for a competent manager. His son-in-law, Mr. Peter Forster, was killed in a tragic accident a few months ago.
After an extremely strenuous two years, Mr. Campbell has got Raua planta tion back to normal; “but,” he says, “1 agree with Mr. Ward that further aliena tion of land for planting in this Territory is undesirable until adequate labour is available for existing conditions. I do not think there will be sufficient satis factory labour, under the present native policy, for rehabilitation and carying on pre-war ventures and the Government schemes of developing native agriculture.
So whence will come the labour for new settlement—except, perhaps, the high lands of ‘ New Guinea? And that large population generally cannot be drawn upon for coastal plantation work, for health reasons.”