Recipes For Islands Cooks

A COMMENDABLE and apparently successful effort has been made by the ladies of Vila, New Hebrides, to raise money for the “Food for Britain” and the French “Sons of the Fallen”

Funds, by compiling, producing and sel ling (5/- each) a book entitled “Island Recipes.”

The purpose of the book is not so much to show anyone how to cook as to tell them what to cook, when one is living in the Islands. Some 24 New Hebrides ladies contributed the recipes, and the latter prove how one may make effective use of local fruits, vegetables, fish and game such as coconuts, bananas, oranges, pine apples, limes, avocada pears, soursop, paw-paws, oysters, prawns, turtles, yams, fish, crabs, pigeons, wild duck, eggplant, breadfruit, corn, manioc, okra, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, grenadillas, mangoes, arrowroot, chokoes, etc.

The book is neatly divided into sec tions, ranging from Beverages to Savouries, from Soups to Pickles, and it is well indexed. The work of organisation and production was done by Mesdames A. M. Blandy and M. O. Blackwell, who are to be congratulated on their achieve ment and commended for their initiative.

The funds have benefited well, and Pacific Islands residents have been pro vided with a very useful compilation.

Mr. Kaimund Denis Cahill, who was accidentally killed in the Morobe Dis trict of New Guinea on August 31, was employed by the Works and Housing De partment as a Transport Driver between Lae and Wau, and he had only just turned 19 years of aee. His body was taken by air to Port Moresby and buried at Konedobu, in the same grave as his grandmother (Mrs. A. R. Pechotsch). He was the son of Sub-Inspector and Mrs.

Norrie Cahill; and, as a member of a pioneer family, he was highly esteemed not only by Europeans but by natives of the Territory as was made evident by the large attendance at the funeral of both natives and half-castes.