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April, 1952, for 35 Japanese divers to be employed at Broome they did not arrive until March of 1953 and were greeted with considerable hostility by all but their employers.
Darwin and Thursday Island, though forced to admit the ineffici ency of most of their present Torres Strait Islands divers, refuse to con sider the use of Japanese; and in April there was a move afoot to in troduce Italian divers to Darwin.
Thursday Island boats are largely owned by the Torres Strait Island ers, under the guiding hand of the Queensland Government. Plans are afoot in TI for the establishment of a diving-school to improve effici ency, as the introduction of outside labour would simply mean unem ployment for the Torres Strait Islanders. The latter’s sources of livelihood are very limited.
back from filming scenes in Tahiti, late erch, came Mr. John O’Shea (left) and Roger Mirams, of Pacific Films, Ltd., [?]llington. They had received great peration from Government departments all concerned in Tahiti, Miss Anna Herman and Mrs. W. Tau Lived per TEAL in Auckland from [?]itaki.
Mr Stan Mayne, popular Suva optician, Mr. Frank Ryan, of Fiji' Times & ald, departed for Suva per Tofua.