Tranquility
pp. 48-50 · Read in the full issue
Is anything more tranquil than Our garden boy, San-fairy-ann?
Quite still among the greenery, He emerges with the scenery As, head downbent, he contemplates A weed the while he meditates: And all about him green things grow Against his sculptured calico.
The shadows drift across his head Almost as though he were quite dead; A blossom falls into his hair; A bee, unheeded, seeks it there.
How wrong to shatter such repose— Kinder to pass him on tiptoes. . . .
But 10, the noontide bello sounds, i’he spell is broken —off he bounds!
Ere bee from flower has taken flight San-fairy-ann is out of sight.
Rosa Moore.
Bsi.
In the early morning of March 9, the most severe earthquake since the re habilitation period was experienced on the Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain.
Considerable damage was done to some buildings in the Kokopo district.
Mr. C. Kendrick, for 27 years Chief Sanitary Inspector in Fiji (except for three years when he was with Dr. S. M.
Lambert, of the Rockefeller Foundation) has retired on pension. He left Suva for New Zealand on March 9. Official and public appreciation of his work was amply demonstrated.
The Hon. A. G. Smyth, sitting mem ber of the Western Samoan Legislative Council, has declined to accept nomi nation for the new Council because of poor health.