PLANTER’S REASSURING REPORT FROM SOLOMONS
“NO NEED FOR ANXIETY”
(Special to THE SUN.) MASTERTON, Tuesday. Mr. Geoffrey E. Clift, owner of the well-known “Breeza” and other plantations in the Solomon Islands, and also the local director for the Fatura Island Development Company (a Masterton concern), has written Mr. G. W. Sellar, secretary of the company, discounting the reports which have recently been circulated regarding the rising in the Solomons. “No doubt the directors of your company have been very much worried by the reports of the disaster over here that we have heard by wireless are current in Australia,’* says Mr. Clift. • There is no need for anxiety whatever in Malaita. This is very difficult territory to negotiate, but by reason of its geographical conformation the trouble cannot spread.” The writer added that he was leaving on a punitive expedition on October 16 with a body of Europeans, for they realised it was essential to show the natives that they could not flout the Government’s authority, otherwise the whites might as well leave the country.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 197, 9 November 1927, Page 18
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