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Native Liquor Plan
STRONG feeling against the grant ing of liquor permits to selected natives has been expressed by all sections of the community, re ported a Rabaul correspondent on August 8.
A sub-committee appointed by the Rabaul Town Advisory Council was to protest against the proposal to the Legislative Council Select Com mittee, which was scheduled to arrive at Rabaul on August 11.
Petitions against the scheme had been signed by 300 persons and more signatures were being collected at Kokopo, Bougainville and New Ire land. It was probable that spokes men of the RSL and of religious bodies would also voice objections. fl Mr. Eric Williams, noted British film producer, arrived at Sydney in July with plans for the filming of Sir Arthur Grimble’s book Pattern of Islands. The book deals with the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, but the film will be made elsewhere, possibly in Fiji. Mr.
Williams later visited Samoa and Fiji.