Some Pertinent Questions from Tonga

Tonga

Under the heading’s of “Things we would like to know, a Nukualofa correspondent, sends the following: When the Agricultural Department intends to appoint fruit inspectors that know something about the packing of bananas?

When the Government expects to appropriate some money for the adequate upkeep of roads in the Kingdom ?

When all the Parliamentary Commissions that have been appointed will have their reports ready for “dummy” to study?

When the growers in Tonga will learn to know that a “full” banana means a better market price?

When the price of soap will fall and come into alignment with the drop in copra ?

When the whales will be all shot off and whether the report is true that the “combine” cannot get the copra price any lower because the clos ing of whale factories has a tendency to “lever” it up ?

When the Government will realise that if it reduces its luxury fee for telephones it will treble its subscribers ?

When civil servants will appreciate the fact that they are appointed by the people for the

people and that a modicum of civility helps to keep them with the people ?

When the copra r ouyers will be satisfied with less than £2 per ton profit on the signed, sealed and delivered product at European ports?

When the despatch boat will make an effort to keep to a time-table and quit the habit of leaving port before the advertised time of sailing?

When owners of motor cars who have laid up their vehicles since the new levy will discover that a laid-up car is a doubtful asset?

When oversea fruit merchants will give up trying to persuade us that they don’t know what a “fruit ring’’ is?