Too Much Money For New
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Guinea Natives
RABAUL natives were money-crazy, Rev. C. J. Mannering, Methodist mis sionary, said in an address in Mel bourne recently.
Probably the administration’s biggest mistake was to pay for their services in cash, he said. With copra bringing high prices, natives had more money than they could use and gambling was showing no decline.
Rehabilitation of the natives and the area would have been advanced further if Australian-New Guinea administration units had been given more supervision of the natives and the 70,000 Japanese cap tured there had been kept on to clear away the debris.
The missions regarded the Govern ment’s proposed scale of salaries for native school teachers as too high, Mr.
Mannering said. Standards set by mis sion-trained tutors should be maintained.