The insidious taint of professionalism is corrupting the primitive innocence of Brown Brother in Papua. The aquatic club at Port Moresby retains crews of natives for its sailing canoes, and also for the paddling events. The dusky watermen put their heads together and informed their taubadas that the eraolumentary scale for canoe-boys required revising—upwards. The club decided to throw itself on thc sportsmanship of thc sophisticated savage and beg him to carry on at the old rates. Failing that, it was reluctantly resolved to meet the union's demands
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18208, 15 July 1927, Page 12
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