PRICE OF WIVES RISES
OTTAWA, June 1. A message from Brantford, Ontario, says that Captain E. Levi, the first Jewish chaplain who went to New Guinea with the American Army, said that Allied soldiers upset the economic life of the Sooth Sea islands by buying grass skirtsand other trinkets. He added that natives complained that they could get a good wife before the war for'one pig. while one now costs £lO to £5O in good Australian cash
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 210, 2 June 1944, Page 6
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77PRICE OF WIVES RISES Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 210, 2 June 1944, Page 6
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