NATIVE PROFITEERS
NEW GUINEA PRICE-FIXERS 4/- FOR LEG OF WILD PORK The natives of New Guinea are rapidly catching up with modern economics. This was discovered by a party of Australian refugees at Bulldog, a small centre of civilisation on the Lakekamu River. When three native canoes swung into view around the bend of the river the refugees rushed forward to buy the native foodstuffs they carried, but the natives went into conference and fixed prices. They demanded, 2d for bananas, which, grow wikl down the river, 1/- for a. coconut, 3/- for an orange, and for a leg of a wild pig.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 96, 26 August 1942, Page 4
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103NATIVE PROFITEERS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 96, 26 August 1942, Page 4
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