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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 May 1959Vol. XXIX, No. 10

With the Apes

p. 57 · Read in the full issue

They’ll Be Back With the Apes

Simogun Peta, senior, of the ree native members in e P-NG Legislative Council, in’t think much of the intro ction of the income tax bill, t he didn’t get a chance to y so in the Council, which was pity.

Outside, Simogun’s carefully ected Pidgin phrases which, xn interpreted, meant quite urly: “It’s a lot of humbug. In nes the tax and out go the ropeans. Without Europeans, ’ll all be living in trees again ng bows and arrows”