The Popular "Pareu" Is With
pp. 29-30 · Read in the full issue
Us Again
From Our Own Correspondent
Mangaia. Nov. 21
RENDERED almost a memory by the war, the printed calico loin cloth, with its immense flowers in white upon-red (or blue), is obtainable again.
This is positive proof, to our Poly nesians, that peace, if not plenty, has come to the white man’s world.
When this writer first came to Mangaia (1926) every damsel and dame wore the pareu , in lieu of elastic-supported knickers. The tropical garment later gave place to the bifurcated mysteries mentioned in the knowledgeables’ opinion, a bad exchange! Now, however, fashion is swinging the other way again.
Governor J. C. Haumant and Madame Haumaunt of French Oceania left Papeete on January 12 on the French sloop “La Grandiere” for Bora Bora. There they picked up an RNZAF plane which took them, via Rarotonga and Fiji, to New Zealand. Later they went on to Australia where they attended the South Seas Commission Conference in Canberra.
Mr. Leo Voronick, who was very well known in Papeete, Tahiti, where he was a pearl merchant, died there on January 8, after a short illness.