An Apology To

Mr. Derek Lowe

Mr. Derek Lowe, buying manager for the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Wholesale Society, has written to PIM through a firm of Melbourne solicitors, taking strong objection to references to him in an article we published in August, “How to Succeed in Business and Be Really Trying”.

Mr. Lowe believes the article may lead people to conclude that he had been guilty of some action for which he could be charged, and further, that on account of his conduct he has not returned to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands.

He denies that any of the losses referred to in the PIM article could in any way be attributed to him; he says he has not resigned from the society, that he has no intention of doing so, and that he is returning to Tarawa in September.

PIM wants to take this first op portunity to state quite clearly that the article was not meant to imply any improper motives or actions to Mr. Lowe. There was and is no question in our minds of Mr. Lowe’s personal honesty.

In fact, Mr. Lowe was one of the men PIM referred to when we stated that several new executives from Australia “had set about making the society an efficient commercial enter prise”. No reflection on Mr. Lowe’s reputation in any way at all was in tended by the PIM article and we apologise to Mr. Lowe if he felt any such interpretation could be con strued by readers. The article was published to underline the difficulties inherent in a clash of cultures in the Islands.