Delayed Pay-Out

From Our Own Correspondent

Mangaia, July 25.

riIHE pay-off for the orange season of X 1945 is scheduled for this week. So far, two steamers have taken car goes; but the authorities are in no hurry to pay for them.

The work of picking casing and ship ping the fruit Involved the Islanders in expense for “store” food—“bully,” and biscuits to support them during the weeks of arduous labour entailed. There was rain, wind, and, once, hail! The dis comfort and fatigue of the work are a heavy strain on those engaged, and need to be seen to be appreciated. Ten shillings a case wouldn’t pay for it! But 6/- is all we get—and that not quickly. It is signi ficant that orange-time is attended by much Illness, and not a few funerals, in the villages. rpo assist shipwrecked people in navl- X gation, arrangements were made in 1943 for the transmission from the Coastal Radio Stations operated in Aus tralia by Amalgamated Wireless of simple time signals, having an error not greater than a fraction of a second. The signal, made on the international lis tening wavelength of 600 metres (which is also the one on which the SOS signal is sent out) is called the “six pip” se quence. It goes out regularly at 0900 hours and 2200 hours, GMT, which cor responds to 7 p.m. and 8 a.m. Sydney time.

Mr. and Mrs. Harold F. Doherty, of St.

Kilda, Melbourne, former residents of New Guinea, announce the birth of a son on August 2, 1945—Patrick Carl Doherty.