GILBERT ISLANDS
ECONOMIC STRESS. By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, May 16. Bishop J. M. Bach, who has completed over 35 years as a missionary priest in the Gilbert Islands, arrived by the Deebank to-day en route for Sydney. He said the economic conditions In the Gilberts are bs bad as they have been for 100 years, and necessity was driving the natives back to their former modes of living. Copra had fallen from £lO to £2/10/- 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 had no new supplies since October.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19801, 17 May 1934, Page 7
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