[ ?] Milk-Trading

Letter to the Editor [ ?] Milk-Trading [?]oncern Escapes [?]G Taxation

Sir—The exemption of the issions from taxation in this untry should again impress on e Lutheran Missionary Society, in le—the registered proprietors of ropical Dairies —that a missionary ciety is an organisation devoted levangelical,I evangelical, educational and edical services, as set out in their tterheads. As such, the society de nes every privilege and considera yn called for by selfless services to ciety.

UE must hope that so many I words set out on a letterhead I do not merely camouflage the ploitation of the commercial iportunities of the country in rich they are privileged to serve.

The Lutheran Mission in Lae has en very active and aggressive mpetitors in the small local milk arket. Because of its privileged sition, and aided probably by the iployment of cheap inspired hour, it has cut milk prices down low the economic level permitted less fortunate milk vendors.

"Grossly Unfair"

This mission competition, which I ,im is grossly unfair, has already t one Lae dairyman out of busi ss altogether; and, by its price tting, using its Mission advant es to the fullest, it will do the me to my dairy enterprise—unless ne of the pioneer missionary ffality is again evident in the ar future. As it is, I have been •ced to draft some of my dairy ffs into the beef herd. \ best-selling book in America Kjr, The Ugly American has «ked many right-thinking Ameri n s by the disclosures of a tain kind of behaviour (where a yileged class falls into disfavour ■ough the greed and unethical ictices of a few). n deference to the highly eemed pioneer Lutheran Mission es of this country, I hope it will rer become necessary to write nit the Ugly American Missionary hew Guinea.

I am, etc.,

Michael J. Leahy.

lag, Lae, if Guinea.

Japtain Andy Thomson and Mr.

C. Brown were among passengers Tahiti from Rarotonga in the ooner Tiare Maori in July, to end the annual celebrations at ?eete.