Sleep-Walker !
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A FIJIAN, Eroni Tubanaika, who appeared in the Police Court in Suva to plead guilty to a charge of being out after curfew was at least ori ginal (says “Fiji Times”). His excuse was that he had walked in his sleep.
“That is one of the best excuses I have heard yet for being out after hours,” said the Magistrate, Mr. Ragnar Hyne. He imposed a fine of 10/- and warned Eroni not to walk in his sleep again, in case his plea was not so readily accepted.
A valuable little book for anyone interested in the flora of Fiji, “Fiiian Plant Names,” was published in the Colony at the beginning of August Mr L. E. V. Parham, of the Agricultural Department, the author of the work which has 1,320 Fijian names of plants belonging to some 140 families 370 gen eral and 600 different species gave a great deal of time to its compilation In a foreword, the Director of Agriculture says that it marks a substantial advance in the recorded information regarding the flora of the Colony,