New Bungalow

The rats, the rats, in their holiday hats, How happily squeaked the good tidings— •‘New house on the hill!

Come on, Gert and Bill.

A delicious leaf roof and no cats.’’

And they’ve all moved into new flats.

The rats, the rats, have moved into flats, All laid out above our new ceiling; They jitterbug nightly, And dine far from lightly On soap and odd bits of the mats, Not to mention the brims of OUR hats.

The rats, the rats, in their holiday hats Are now under threat of eviction; There’s nice DDT Being handed round free; There’s a series of traps round their flats And a trio of talented cats.

R.M.

Honiara, BSI.

Dr. R. M. Irwin, who has been a medi cal officer in Western Samoa for the past three years, has been appointed Chief Medical Officer of the Cook Islands. With Mrs. Irwin he left the Territory by plane in mid-December to take up his new ap pointment. Two new officers, formerly of the Indian Medical Service have ar rived in Apia to relieve the shortage of medical men in the Territory.

Sir Albert Ellis (British Phosphate Commission) has informed NZ farmers that Nauru phosphate production should be back at pre-war level by the end of 1949.

Mrs. Doris Booth, of Wau (NG), was entertained recently at a garden party in Brisbane by Lady Cilento, Mrs. Booth is an active member of the Brisbane Mothercraft Association,