Journal and notes of H. Hamlin : Whitney South Sea Expedition July 20, 1927 to August 8, 1930.
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(92) Can get tax-money only by barter or by a common fund supplied by plantation wages, which the young working bucks are loath to part with. The villages have not retained the communal spirit as they have on Malaita. Here, all tax revenue comes from the wages of men working for white people. So - up with the pick and on to Soraker, arriving at 2:30. Here we found quite a community - 5 white men and a good engineering outfit. The place runs two schooners, one, the