This Made Me Laugh

By “Pedele”

Calling The Kettle Black

A NATIVE cricket team from the Island of Bau, in Fiji, paid their usual annual visit to Levuka (the old capital) to try conclusions with the local team.

The European team was batting and one of the Bau slow bowlers sent up a tempting one which the batsman hit nght over the boundary for six, and on to the road.

An aged native woman going along the road with a bundle of firewood strapped hv S?S Ul( lf r ? as struck on the head by the bail. But she merely turned round and uttered an exclamation and went on her way.

The Fijian bowler turned to the Um- Pire and said; “Well, I’m damned! You cant kill some niggers with an axe!” * S $

Peace, At A Price

A RESIDENT, of Levuka, Fiji, and his wife decided to pay a social call , tu o^e afternoon and left the youngest of their five sons (aged 21 years) in the care of a native nurse girl.

A week or two previously a case of boots shoes and slippers had been im ported from Australia for the whole family and when the small boy proved a bit troublesome the nurse girl gave n t s e J. oot wear, one at a time, and allowed him to throw them into the creek which ran past the house. The boats sailed away, until thev filled with water and sank.

When the parents returned home they were informed that the baby had been a good boy, playing boats.”

Volunteers were called for. and com menced diving in the stream, in the vici nity of the house. . n ? e w sult wa f fai rly satisfactory but some had gone for good. nurse girl must have been of the opinion that anything for a quiet life” was a good motto—but she was looking for another job that evening! *** 5jC ••• A Win For The Judge At a race meeting held at Nadi, Fiji, the native judge owned a horse which was entered in a seven fur longs race. The race, when contested, must, however have gone at least 2 rmles, for the judge kept the horses going round the course until his horse was in mPnioTf and he si g na Hed to the native stewards that the race was over. • • .

Dairyman's Dilemma

THE local dairyman in Levuka, Fiji, was an old and respected Indian On one occasion, when calling for his monthly account, one of his cus tomers jokingly told him that on one in the mi?™*^ 8 he had f ° Und prawns The old Indian apologised profusely (Continued on next Page)

and said it was because the cows had broken through the fence and gone down to the creek to drink. But, he assured his customer, he had got the fence re paired and it wouldn’t happen again. • * • He Did Not Forget A CHURCH of England Bishop was on a visit to the various centres of Viti Levu (Fiji) and whilst at Ba he wished to visit Lautoka and Nadi on the Sunday, holding a Service at each place in the morning and evening res pectively.

The local CSR train left Ba at 6.30 am. for Lautoka and the Bishop re quested one of the native orderlies, travelling as his servant, to call him at 6 a.m. and especially warned him “not to forget” to do so.

The native awakened the Bishop at 5 a.m to inform him that he had an other hour to sleep!