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Dear bride
Someone just paid a bride price of K345,000 last weekend in Manus. Ouch.
Vagrancy law
It will be almost impossible to tell unemployed people in towns and cities to return to their villages and farm the land. The lights in town are just too bright. Someone says telling people to return home will be like forcing a river to flow uphill.
Love thy neighbour
Residents at a new housing estate in the Moresby North-East electorate are getting fed up with the regular overnight parties on weekends in some homes. The parties do not end until Sunday evening at times. No one sleeps. Some just cannot appreciate the biblical “love thy neighbour” lesson.