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A NEW ZEALANDER'S IMPRESSIONS.
NATIVES PA MP EKED TOO MUCH.
(Received Last Night, 7.20 o'clock.)
SYDNEY, November 22,
Mr G. Potts, «i Now Zealander, who has just returned from Papua, after inquiring into the conditions of settlement there on behalf of his relatives, says ho considers that the country lias a very good future, but it is a long ivny ofF. Ho is sure that th" cultivation of coeoa.nuts will do it eventually. He declared that the natives have been handled very badly. They have been pampered too much. They have tucker given them when they are not. working. It is< difficult to obtain land, which is all in J ;he hands of big companies. Mr Leiseh, the owner of the Wood la rk GoH Mine at Papua, says that the miners are getting gold all over the island. Everyone is doing well. The Mount Morgan Company is negotiating for the purchase of the Woodlark mine.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 23 November 1912, Page 5
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