Typically Tropic

You can read about the guile and the lure of tropic isles.

And the devastating mischief that they do; How a tired young baronet will fall there for all the wiles, And will buy himself a native wife or two.

You can read of stirring pictures where he sits upon a mat, While half-a-dozen kids ‘are playing round; And he’s smoking trade tobacco; think ing this, and thinking that, And his wives sit at his feet there on the ground.

You can travel through the Islands, or you can take it just from me These pathetic little tales are “all my eye”.

They’re a worn out tropic topic; some thing that you’ll never see; They are libels, and are tales that I deny.

We may be at times romantic in our lazy sort of way, And watch a sun-set from the tropic sand; Or, at times when forced to rise, we will greet the break of day As a sight that’s really swish—you understand.

It’s not often that we moon about the wonderful lagoon, Or the stately palms that wave their heads on high.

We are “tuning-in” to Sydney, Singapore or else Rangoon— There are times, too, when we wear an ev’ning tie.

We’re a fairly moral crowd—and the wives we have are white, And our kiddies are at school in cooler climes; If we’re sun-kissed, we are normal—or. at least, I hope I’m right— We are typically tropic—with the times —Don Gordon Mr. J. I, Blaikie, Headmaster of the King George V. School at Tarawa, Gil bert and Ellice Islands Colony, has been appointed Superintendent of Police on Ocean Island, according to a recent notice issued by the Colonial Office. London.

Mr. D. Eden, of Vailele, Western Sa moa, is at present in New Zealand on furlough with his wife and two sons.

Miss E. Downs, of the London Mission ary Society, arrived back in Samoa by the November “Maui Pomare” after short furlough in New Zealand.

Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Brooks arrived in Australia from Suva by the “Monterey” recently to make their home in Sydney.

For the past 30 years. Mr. Brooks has been in the employ of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., in the Labasa Dis trict.

Rev. E. and Mrs. Fenn, of the London Missionary Society, Aird Hill. Papua, re ceived many congratulations in November on the birth of a daughter.

Mr. Simeon Lewis Lazarus, Second- Lieutenant in the Fiji Defence Force, married Miss Betty Jane Kearsley at the Suva Holy Trinity Pro-Cathedral in November. They spent their honeymoon cruising in the Group on board the bridegroom’s yacht “Cimba”.