Hasty Regulation—And

Hastier Repentance

(From a New Hebrides Correspondent) YOU instanced some samples of Con dominium Regulations relating to native wages, some months ago.

Here is a prime sample. We will entitle

it “Hasty Regulation and Hastier Repent

ance.”

New Hebrides Condominium —No. 1, 1944.

A joint Regulation to prohibit the manufacture and sale of native curios. (1) The manufacture and sale of native curios (e.g., grass skirts, canoes, clubs, bracelets, etc.), except as authorised by the Resident Commissioner, is hereby prohibited. (2) Infraction of this Regulation shall be punish able by a fine not exceeding £5O and by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by one or other of these penalties. (3) This Regulation may be cited as the New Hebrides Prohibition of Manufacture and Sale of Native Curios Joint (Defence) Regulation No. 1 of 1944 and shall come into force on the day after the date thereof.

Dated 14th' January, 1944.

A. Fourcade, F.C. R. D. Blandy, H.B.M.C.

On February 24, 1944 —10 days later: Joint Regulation No. 1, 1944 (Prohibition, etc., of Native Curios), has been repealed.

This is a sample of the kind of legisla tion dealt out to us by our joint dicta tors. Few are repealed so hastily.

Nuff said!

Mr. M. Maginnity, formerly of Apia, W. Samoa, staff of the Bank of New Zealand, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the RNZNVR.