Cargo Pillage In Bsi

Is Serious Problem

BSIP residents and the Protectorate Government are concerned over cargo pillaging which has been oc curring either in Sydney of Honiara.

Shipping is still infrequent to BSI and when long-awaited cargo is short-landed weeks elapse before replacement orders can be obtained from Sydney. This, in addition to the monetary loss, which m some cases has been considerable, is causing much heartburning.

Precautions have now been devised and these it is believed will reveal how the short-landing has occurred and enable future losses to be prevented.

Colonel H. T. Allan, a well-known planter of Rabaul, New Guinea, arrived in Sydney early in February, seeking a medical overhaul. He does not expect to return to the Territory at an early date.