190 When a village falls into lean days the men, when they are most needed in the village to restore it to pros- perity, are the most tempted to make paper (sign on) as a laborer on a plantation. The government finds it impossible to suppress this practice inasmuch as labor recruiting, that is, the obtaining of native labor, is an essential office of the plantation owner, the con- tinuation of which is the very vital of his existence. The villager, furthermore, who has served histime on a plantation and is free to turn back into the life of his village is no longer as useful. He has lingered too long under the white man's regime, has gotten "ideas", and never falls into the pace again. I say never. There are, of course, a great many exceptions. But it is not difficult to see looking into the future of the island and the future of the bush villages, the gradual dis- integration of the old society simply on this basis. The villages who need their men most are the ones who cannot hold their men, and with their departure it takes only a few years with no one but women and old men to manage the village affairs for the village to become extinguished altogether; the gardens to turn to weeds and the houses perches for parrots and feeding grounds for crows. In mentioning the organization of the Bougainville bush village, I have referred only to those villages under the control of the government. There are a great many which are entirely unknown to the government, and have never been discovered. One of these, for instance,