P-NG Assistant Administrator Criticises a Prospectus
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* n H lO Legislative Counselsion P fl a t PU t a h^Tnd Gul f ne ?yr at session at the end of May, the Assistant Administrator, Dr. John a P r ospectus that mnv^whi by . a k?' vestors that they could piofitably thp C^nm f^th g • wlth " hnrnp<f Vmg com£or t o£ their own nr . .. fvP r ‘ ?" nthe r s that there were rnnfd P K° S P e £ tus that be challenged, but he would v? 1 ! 8 criticism to the claim that labour costs for planters in
the Highlands would be only 16 per day P er unit—compared with £4 or £5 per day in Hawaii.
Dr. Gunther said that hp was certain that no honest employer of labour in P-NG could meet his commitments for many times the sum of 1 6 and that thp TprHtnrv did not w ant the kind of employers who would so exploit labour.
He said that there was no labour on the plantation referred to in the prospectus, and that labourers that had previously worked on the plantation had not been housed there.