The Three Stages Of
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Sophistication
Mr. Charles B. Nordhoff, of Tahiti, well-known American writer, has settled down in Santa Barbara, USA, for the present. He has developed cataract growth in both eyes, and must undergo a serious operation within a year or two.
“When we meet again,” he says in a letter to the editor of the “PIM,” “I shall be very dignified in a pair of thick glasses.” His partner in the famous col laboration, Mr. James Norman Hall, re cently returned to residence in Tahiti.
A stained glass window (one of a series of eight donated by Miss Emily Robson) was recently unveiled at St. Andrews’s Cathedral, Sydney. It depicts pioneer missionaries Maclaren and Copeland King with the natives of the New Guinea Mission.
The three stages of a Fijian mine labourer. On the left: He arrives, ready to labour, in singlet and pants. Centre: After his first pay, he develops a clothes sense, and arrays himself in a well-laundered shirt. Right: After another two or three days, he appears in a tailored coat and a wristlet watch. And so comes civilisation! —Photo from Mr. Tom Costello, Tavua, Fiji.