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Kapmandu Service station. Did South Seas Tuna make any contact with you? They havemade contact with the interoil at Lae. How do they collect their fuel? They use a card call IPL tocollect their fuel. They pay us in a cheque. They use the IPL card because interoil provides thecard for the interoil suuplier. …we only provide fuiel for the transport. The factory machinesget their fuel from the IPL depot loading it into the factory. The factory operates and our salesof fuel has been increasing and the company is also making money. They pay us every month,they pay roughly as much as K2000 to K3000 every month, that depends on the transport usedwhen they collect K100 a day they look for that much to pay in monthly.Raymond Kondang, Saint Mary’s Primary School, grade 8 age 15 years. Do you feel effectsfrom SST? Yes. I don’t feel hungry and don’t concentrate on my school work. It occurs beforeand after lunch when the wind blows strongly. I used to block my nose and the class is stillcontinuing. I used to buy the lunch and wait when the smell is over then I have to eat it. I haveheard that a grade 5 student is womiting from the smell. I’d really like them to stop the smell ormove the factory to built in some way away. Student behavior is very bad when the odoureffects occur. I am breathing polluted air.Richard of 9 th Street Nuigo. From Sumbian Village. Operations Supervisor of Bangwi ServiceStation. Do you supply the fuel to SST? No we only supply the fuel to the factory transport.They use a card called BP Plus card, which is full of officical docyumentation of the companyand the transport number and the flat number of the transport. So we collect the amount andgive them the copy. They pay the bill at the end of the month. They pay it through BP oil in Laeand through our account. The amount to BP fuel in Lae is 10,000 to 13,000 a month. Does SSTcontribute significantly to your sales of fuel? It increased our fuel rate and our sales. We havesome problems, though. When the South Seas Tuna workers are on suspension and the workeris using the company transport. The company will send me a letter telling me that this personwill be suspended at that time plus the number of the transport and the flat number of thetransport. The Operations Supervisor will be blamed if they get fuel, because my boys don’tcooperate with me. So I deduct that amount from they wages when they give fuel to suspendedworkers.Paul Loff, Headmaster Saint Mary’s Primary School. From Hainiak Village Kubalia District.We do feel the effect of the factory. A strong smell continuously comes from the factory whenthe wind blows. It disturbs the students in their peaceful learning, and sometimes the childrenare sick. Almost every day. Sometims the children are sick and not attending class andsometimes the smell is chasing them away from classes. A good numbr of parents includingteachers complain about the smell. …Yes, the students continue to have their lunch despite the161