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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