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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1955Vol. XXVI, No.3

[?] earlers May Move

p. 153 · Read in the full issue

To Trobriands

RUSH of pearling vessels from Thursday Island and elsewhere to the Trobriand Group is re ied as a possibility as a result ae repeal of the 1910 proclama excluding non-native pearling els from the Trobriands. le grounds are reported to be in pearl shell and trochus. le proclamation -was made 45 s ago to protect a native sea and to give the local people lance to cash in on a valuable stry. Apparently they have d to do so.

Territory businessman, who is to have played an important in the preliminaries to the al of the proclamation, is ex -3d to have a boat and a Euro i diver working in the Trob is very shortly.