ABSTRACT
The Hanuabadans are now as completely dependent upon a cash income for their livelihood as are any other suburban communities. They now need cash for the purchase of almost all food, for entertainment and in some measure for all production, and in considerable quantity for traditionally-based ceremonial exchanges. Wage-earning is the only way to obtain a regular supply of cash. Other earnings supplement this to a small extent, and it would be possible, technically speaking, to increase the income of Hanuabada considerably by engaging in new types of production and organization. But over the past eighty years, the Hanuabada people have become accustomed to accepting cash as it has been offered by European employers; they have entered into wage labour of the types offering in the town; they have become a community of clerks and paid tradesmen. To break away from this easy dependence on employment, with little executive responsibility, would presuppose a new, almost revolutionary outlook, and would furthermore involve a radical alteration in the economic structure of Port Moresby, if not of Papua and New Guinea as a whole.
