50,000 Croc. Skins
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Boom Continues
50,000 Croc. Skins From the Sepir
OWING to a strong demand— mostly from Singapore—the crocodile-skin business has been booming in the Sepik area of New Guinea. The chief traders there— especially Johnny Young. Peter England, Cedric Durban. Fred Eichorn—estimate that they have sent 50,000 skins out of the country in the last three years.
They say that they reckon there are another 150.000 skins to be taken —the crocodile population of the Sepik has not appreciably
fallen. "Hie demand continues to be natives who go out after the skins for the traders make S money-one man for a while made £4 per day.
Fate Of A Maneater
PhUHvoJ 31 ! crocodile began taking children from a riverside village but was so cunning that the natives could not discover the culprit. Mr Young talked a couple of big ones in that area, and shot one 15 feet l01 }g- T he natives, as usual, gathered for a feast, to begin when the skin was off. But inside the croc were the remains of some small children—this was the culprit. The natives dropped all feasting arrangements, and were separately
and individually very sick.-
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