Peace, If is Wonderful!

From Our Own Correspondent

Mangaia, Nov. 10.

rE piping days we are now seeing are beginning to justify Father Divine’s endorsements of peace and plenty. Things that disappeared from the store-counters six years ago are now beginning to make a token re-appear ance. Lucky is he who has money just after the schooner calls.

It is good to see the old gay labels again, even though only two or three of the “57 varieties” (of pickled goods) are as yet available. One’s money does not, however, go far. A common kettle, of no very robust construction, now costs 24 9. NZ’s coinage is still as good as ever —it just takes more of it to get results, that’s all!

Mangaia’s frugal housekeeping did not greatly suffer, even in the tightest days following Pearl Harbour. There was enough soap, always; candlenuts and shellfish had at times to substitue for kerosene and “canned eatables”: but no one complained, and now our patience is rewarded.

The Administrator of Western Samoa.

Sir Alfred Turnbull, recently returned from his last trip of inspection of the Island of Savaii. He found the Savaii population happy and contented and re markably prosperous, owing mainly to the largely increased cultivation of cocoa beans, which, at the present high price, is proving very profitable.