- OD -- -- Australia is supposed to hold the Northern of New Guinea in trusteeship for the Ghitid Nations about such generousity will have their opinions verifi which: appeared in a special supplement to The Economist of Jan eeeeNot that coffee growers around Goroka" Editorial note: oe Bee main ‘towns in Australian New Guinea) "are doing badly, One regia’ be Akunai runs the Highland Commodity Exchange, @ company with 2 000 nz re: shareholders which buys coffee from members and other growers, eo years has raised its dividend from 10 per cent to 15 per cent. = —— - no dividend this year, since the whole cash flow is being at deg to build a $440,000 coffee factory...John Akunai is an see riage _ not unlike the great Satchmo in looks and personality, but as pra ei any Victorian industrialist with his money, His men get $A4 a fortni ‘ee plus rations worth $A2m and he has been known to pay them in beer pote : worth 2d each in the bad old days..." Sy
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