SOLOMON ISLANDS
A TRYING PERIOD. WELLINGTON, August 25. The Rev. T. Bensley, attached to the Methodist Mission, arrived in Wellington by the Monowqj, Mr Bensley is on a holiday for fiv e months before returning to the Solomon Islands.
He said that the natives in the Solomons, like everybody else, were going through a very trying period. The bottom had dropped out of the copra trade and the Datives were finding rt very difficult to pay the poll tux. Ivory nut and trochua shdl were also bring, ing very low prices, Mr Bensley says that th e natives are in a very advanced state of civilisation, great progress having been made in recent years.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1931, Page 5
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