Verses Of The Pacific
p. 112 · Read in the full issue
Isles
MRS. Alice Allen Innes has published some of her verses in a gift-booklet —called “Songs from the South Seas”—a boon to givers of Christmas presents in these days of increasing responsibilities and little time.
Some of the verses are known already to PIM readers; some are not. The technical perfection or the intellectual snob (of whom, God help us, there as an over-abundant supply in this age) would probably find fault with them, but AAI has, nonetheless, the happy gift of capturing the real essence of the Islands world —perhaps, because she, like most Islands residents, is part-realist, part-romanticist.
Captain Brett Milder has done several black and white drawings for the booklet which is attractively printed. They are done up in envelopes ready for posting.
Price is 6 - or 6/6 posted. Copies may be obtained from Pacific Publications Office, 7th Floor, 247 George Street, or by writing to our box number—34oB, Sydney.
The members of a research team which is studying the incidence of tuberculosis in the South Pacific for the South Pacific Commission are to visit Fiji shortly. The team is led by Dr. J, Guillermin of the French Colonial Medical Service. The re maining members are a bacteriologist, Miss B. G. Balfour of Melbourne, and an X-ray technician, Mr. W. H. P. Love of Wellington.