Nickel Miners' Strike Ends
pp. 149-151 · Read in the full issue
AFTER some months of ineffectual arbitration on the issue of pay parity with other unions, the miners of New Caledonia struck on February 13 and were joined later, in sympathy, by the nickel smelting workers.
Mine owners justified the prevail ing below-parity wages on the score of free housing provided, but the miners classify these habitations as slums and point to the high, and increasing, cost of living.
The nickel mines are operated by Societe Nickel and owned and con trolled by the Rothschild interests and the Bank of Indo-China.
The strike ended on February 23.
The strikers gained their demands.
H High Commissioner and Mrs. G. R.
Powles, of Western Samoa, and their two sons, paid a two days visit to Governor and Mrs. Barrett Lowe, of Eastern Samoa, in mid-January. tl American Samoan singles tennis championship was won by Smith Ho Ching, who defeated Leonard Yandal in the senior branch of the singles by scores of 6—4, 6 —4. Buck Huff won the Junior singles in a round robin series by defeating all-comers in that class.
Islands Social Events
OVE: The wedding of Miss Saliy Leung to Mr. John Wan took at the Lutheran Mission Church, Lae, NG, in mid-January, the bride and groom are Miss Mary Wan, bridesmaid, and Mr. [?]o, best man, with the small flower-girl.—Photo by Y. C. Wong.
RIGHT: Thre well-known members of Australasian Petroleum [?]any's executive staff have recently been transferred from Port [?] by to other overseas positions. They are Messrs. John Ahearn, [?]borne and P. Wainwright. Mr. Ahearn now goes to Melbourne, Osborne to Sydney and Mr. Wainwright to the United Kingdom probably later, to Persia. Shown here at an APC party in [?]by are (top to bottom) Mr. N. Osborne with Mrs. J. Ahearn; [?]ohn Ahearn with Mrs. P. Wainwright; Mr. P. Wainwright with N. Osborne. -Photo by Papuan Prints.