£500,000 for BSI

But Nothing for War-Blitzed Planters

THE British Government has allotted £500,000 to British Solomons Islands Protectorate from amounts received from Jan anese reparations.

Plantation-owners in BSI (who suffered a “wipe-out” in the war received no rehabilitation help, and are now forced to pay heavy in come taxation) asked that at least to f the £500,000 be allotted The BSI Government has an nounced bluntly that no war dam age compensation will be naid and the £500,000 retained for special purposes.

I i R onald Ricketts, of Koro Island, Fiji, journeyed to New Zealand on vacation in November He expected to return to Fiji in January. J 11