Rewards To P-Ng Natives
p. 40 · Read in the full issue
Trochus Brings Rich
MORE than £30,000 worth of trochus and Green-snail shell was recovered by P-NG Native Co-operative divers in the last six months of 1955.
On Manus Island, the shell
returned the co-operatives mr money than copra.
Native Societies in about 7 P-3districts are at present engaged* the industry. This is not surprisa as trochus has been brings exceptionally high prices in last six months —in July, 1955, was quoted at £A425 per ton; ; February, 1956, at £ASIS.
H Mr. David Collins has bu appointed acting Registrar of 0 operative Societies in Fiji.