"Winter" Is Early In Tahiti

From Our Own Correspondent Papeete, July 24.

THE boisterous South Wind has blown the Antarctic climate to the very threshold of Tahiti. By day. we shiver in our unheated houses. By night we sleen under heavy blankets.

Inter-island schooners report very rough seas when they pass out of the protection of the leeward side of high islands. This year, the cold season has begun two months before the usual period.

Reported that oversea shins are now being “chinned ” (removal of old rust, and naint from nlates) by Fijian workmen in Suva harbour instead of—as customary —in Sydney. Reason given is that the temneramehtal waterside workers of Svdney—the cultured gentlemen who dictate Australia’s foreign nolicv will not work in the holds of shins while they are being chipped, because it is too noisy.