SERIOUS CONDITIONS
GILBERT ISLANDS blight OF NATIVES * (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this clay. Bishop J. M. Bach, who has completed: over 35 years as a missionary priest An flk-ef Gilbert islands, arrived by the Deebafflb to-dav, en route to Sydney. He said that the economic conditions in the Gilberts were as bad as they had been for 100 years, and 1 necessity was driving the natives back to their former inodes df living. Copra had fallen from £lO to £2 JOs a ton, and the natives were leaving off producing it. The islands were also facing an added difficulty in the threatened loss of a direct shipping service. Most of the mission’s outpost stations had not had new supplies since October.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18398, 16 May 1934, Page 13
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121SERIOUS CONDITIONS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18398, 16 May 1934, Page 13
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