That Bracing Sea Air!
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IHE salt sea air in Fiji waters ap parently produces sailors with gargantuan appetites (or hollow s). This is the new scale of food to be lied weekly to each crew member on er-island boats (practically all of them ; native Fijians):— Bread, 10 lb. (or biscuits, 6 lb.); fresh at (no bone), 4 lb.; split peas, i lb.; tive vegetables, 14 lb.; green vege >les, 1| lb.; fruit (such as pawpaw), lb.; lemons, seven only; coconuts, seven y.
Jnpolished rice or rolled oats. 2 lb.; irps for thickening, 4 oz.; tea, 4 oz.; un jetened condensed milk. 16 oz.: drip ig, I lb.; cheese, 2 oz.; jam. 14 oz.; :ar, 2 lb.; onions, 8 oz.; sufficient salt, >per and curry without waste, lesidents of Papua-New Guinea who given to muttering about new-fangled as for native labourers’ diet, please e. ►r. H. S. Evans, who retired two years » from service with the Medical De tment, Fiji, is expected to return to Colony in November in order to take duties of Medical Officer and District icer, Rotuma.