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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1956Vol. XXVI, No.7

Japs the Answer?

p. 97 · Read in the full issue

JST as Eastern Samoa has estab lished a tuna fishing industry worth millions of dollars on basis of employing the right a on a no-fish, no-pay basis, so ;tralians are being given a ctical demonstration of what Dloying the right men can mean the northern pearling industry, fter great initial opposition, the ;tralian Government permitted .tralian pearling companies to ! 160 Japanese skilled divers and ;r’s tenders under a strict system control. All the men are paid i wages. In January, one of Bar ’s master pearlers, an employer livers, said that already, as the lit of using these few Japanese led divers, the production of 1 since last June has received ) per cent, boost over 1954-55.