P-NG is Producing Individualists

Examples of individualism among natives keep showing up through the Euro pean economic system, under which New Guinea now lives. .. i? *L re , ~a sbrew d Tolai man who owns and operates a cocoa plantation in e aoaul district, and who employs his fellow-villagers and sells his own cocoa, „ f Price, He recently placed orders for fermentary equipment to the value or a^4,UOO. f he Administration does not like it much—it tries to keep cocoa production i in the co-operative movement, and to maintain control over the native fer entanes But this Tolai man has a mind of his own, and displays a typical % a s2S d * ° defiance of the government. .f n 19 .’ wben Mr. Fred Archer was at Maty Island, he received a party of ?. recru, ts tor the Expro Board, and he sought among them for a boss-boy. He a clean ‘f kinned , intelligent fellow, and selected him for the job; and he n. “ re^?X tably de P en «Jable in all respects. Today, he is much better known as ogen, MLC, whose addresses to the Council, and to his own countrymen, usually are packed with sound commonsense. He is an outstanding individualist. cj . eW H/ ) 1l? e s rS »r “ ave been giving prominence to the expressed determination of , a Wahgi valley coffee-grower, to send his son Kuri to an Australian university an.? 1 ™- i°h purpose he has saved £l,OOO, obtained from gold-getting in the Jimmi and from produce of his 15-acre plantation. Kuri, aged 12, now attends the Intermediate School at Goroka. < £ uinea ” s have a very long way to go, but they are on the way—and it s to be a Capitalist rather than a Communist way.