Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1966Vol. 37, No. 2

Johnson Cultist

p. 31 · Read in the full issue

Page 3131

Loses Faith

Boas, one of the leaders of the “Johnson Cult” in New Hanover, has had a change of heart.

In a document to P-NG Administration officials in Rabaul, he has confessed that he began to have doubts when President Johnson did not turn up on the island on the day and time promised by the founders of the Cult.

He now believed that the talk of buying President Johnson was “all lies”. He called upon the people of New Hanover to abandon the Johnson Cult and support the Administration and the local council.

Members of the Johnson Cult have been refusing to pay taxes to the council, and instead have been paying money to the Cult for the purpose of “buying President Johnson from Ame rica”.

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