THE ISLAND NATIVES.
NOT SO VERY SIMPLE.
The natives of the Islands who have had much to do with white people are not so simple as many people imagine. Mrs. Edgley, secretary of the women's auxiliary of the Association for the Protection of Native Races in Australasia and Polynesia, reported at the annual meeting of the association in Sydney last week that the committee had recently met Miss Beatrice Grimshaw, who had informed them that the Papuans, at all events, were well able to take care of themselves. Planters who did not treat their "boys" well ■were "black-listed" by the natives, and two concerns had failed through their inability on this account to secure labourers. Mrs. Edgley added that the Papuan Government had taken steps to ensure the moral welfare of the natives, but conditions in the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides needed a lot of watching.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15407, 16 September 1913, Page 8
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