Dr Jacomb In The South
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DOCTOR, barrister and author, Dr. E.
Jacomb, of England, is seeking a place in which he may spend his re tirement. He returned to Auckland by the “Matua” recently after a tour of the lower group of the Cook Islands. Dr.
Jacomb said he had not yet decided where he would settle, but it would probably be
in the West Indies. Dr. Jacomb roundly condemned the liquor restrictions in Rarotonga—a feature of New Zealand’s “Old Granny” Government in her Pacific Islands.
“I am 58 years of age, not a baby, and I think the liquor restrictions there are absurd”, said Dr. Jacomb. “It is not as though by these restrictions the white is saving the native, because the native is not being saved. He makes his orange beer. He can easily get oranges and sugar.
The first thing I saw when I went ashore at Rarotonga was a native drunk.”
Dr. Jacomb left Auckland by the “Matua” again for Tonga, Apia and Suva.
He was in the New Hebrides for some years, and wrote a clever and amusing book about the Condominium.
Dr. Jacomb, “snapped” at a picnic in Nukualofa recently, while undergoing “Sisi” decorations.
Photo by Hettig.