ABSTRACT
There are two forms of land tenure in the Mailu district. The Mailu islanders (Toulon Island) possess only a very limited area for agricultural purposes, and they have accordingly a modified form of land tenure. Their gardening and their agrarian laws are of less interest to them than to those of the mainland Mági, and, having exceptionally good opportunities and capacity for fishing, they are also much less dependent on the produce of their soil. On the mainland, on the other hand, the question of land tenure is more important, not only because the natives there are nearly entirely dependent upon the produce of the soil, but because they have to deal with the normal conditions of the agricultural Papuan – abundance of land at the disposal of a fairly small community.
