[?]ing Causes

[?]eline Trochus [?]ing Causes nikoro Protest

EMMING, presumably, from the

current high price for trochus, implaint to the BSIP Govern ; from Vanikoro Islanders in t seeks the banning of shell

ig by employees of timber

ests on reefs which the Vanikoro le look on as their own pre :S. has been reported that since ms prices began to soar, ns persons connected with Vanikoro timber company have actively buying shell and I general trading business in Santa Cruz Group. This, it is led, brings the original timber rnient into the picture, ere is no Saturday work at koro, and timber workers often at by launch for a day’s shell -g- -is practice, not unnaturally, upset the indigenous Islanders, have visions of their reef being ded of the valuable shell by ders. e original agreement, sub ed to by the Vanikoro ders, the BSIP Government the timber interests, gave those ests only the right to cut and rt island timber; the agree , was so limited that even the ig of kauri gum was banned. 3dal Correspondent.

Ronald Garvey, Governor of md Lady Garvey, who travelled igland in January, are expected ;urn in the Or cades', arriving at on September 25. gadier H. B. Norman, Admin or of Norfolk Island, Mrs. an and Miss Deborah Norman, lydney on June 4 for a holiday ayman Island, Great Barrier Leslie F. Gill of Munda, , arrived in Sydney en route Melbourne to seek medical tion in the Malaita in early is Olivia Anderson returned to 3 with South Pacific Com jn Headquarters, Noumea, in after a period at the Sydney ? Resident Commissioner of Gilbert and Ellice Islands iy, Mr. Bernacchi, accompanied Jrs. Bernacchi. left Bairiki d Te Matapula last September irry out an official tour of southern Gilberts and the Islands.