Expected in Cook Islands
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Round-Up Of Sinners
a private letter, written by a resident of the Cook Islands to the editor of the “It is impossible to forecast the lines the new Administrator will follow, but it is likely his policies will differ in many respects from those of Judge Ayson. I think it is certain he will co operate with some of the mis sions. We confidently anticipate a gen eral rounding-up of all cohabitors and bush-beer consumers, (Cohabitation with a woman to whom one is not married, and consumption of fermented orange juice, or “bush beer,’’ are sins punish able by law in the Cook Is.—Ed., P.1.M.) “As you have remarked in your P.1.M. . it is high time that this cohabitation nonsense was held up to the public ridicule it deserves.”