At Least
p. 69 · Read in the full issue
Ng Workers Get
£6 Per Month
AVERY INTERESTING announcement is made in the Papua-New Guinea Gazette of May 25 by the Director of Native Labour. He informs employers who propose to make their unindentured native servants a monetary allowance in lieu of rations that the allowance is now officially assessed at £l/3/7 Australian per week, in addition to wages, which must not be less than 15/- per month.
Therefore, it should now be noted by Mr. Ward and his fellow-travellers, who have had so much to say about the “ex ploitation of natives” by the Europeans who pay them a miserable 15/- per month, that the wages received by the native workers, in cash or in kind, are not less than £6 per month. That is the official minimum. Actually, they are more than that.