Household “Hints” For
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The Tropics
nPHE upper waters of the Bariji River.
Papua, are in high country, covered by a thick growth of bamboo. The women there have no pots and pans wherein to prepare meals for their husbands. A 3ft. length of young bamboo is all they need.
Cutting the food into convenient pieces, they stuff it into the bamboo, seal up the end, and place it in hot ashes. When the bamboo blackens and shows 'signs of cracking, the food is cooked, and has a pleasant appearance.
In the Purari Delta, where sago is the staple food of the large communities living in the mud and, slush of the laby rinth of densely-grown waterways, grubs,
mussels, and shrimps are used to vary the monotonous diet. Sandwiched between layers of moist sago, they are enveloped in sago leaves folded lengthwise, and pinned together with small twigs. The torpedo-shaped bundles are covered in hot ashes and roasted brown. The result
is appetising.-
M.L.
Rev. G. F. Jones, who has been Seventh Day Adventist pastor at Lord Howe Is land for three years, arrived in Sydney by the Morinda on August 16 to attend an Adventist Conference.
Mr. Skov Boye, formerly of the staff of Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd., at Makambo, Solomon Islands, has taken over the management at Vanikoro Island, Southern Solomons.