The first of a series of three articles dealing in interesting fashion with the recruiting of native labour in the Papuan territory. The author, who writes from, personal experience, gives us vivid pictures of the work of obtaining labour for the coconut and rubber plantations, the copper mines, and oil fields. "THAT boat looks mighty familiar somehow or other." The speaker was a keen-eyed, elderly Australian on the bridge of the ancient, monthly steamer that was just then poking its ugly way ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938), Wed 9 Feb 1927, Page 13
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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