PIM Crossquiz - No. 19
pp. 60-84 · Read in the full issue
(Solution on Page 83)
Across
1. —What is the green rust of copper? 5. —What is an affection ate term for the sun? 6. Where, in Greece, was a famous battle fought be tween the Persians and Athenians in 490 8.C.? 7. —What is a sacred image in the Eastern Church? 9. —An additional clause? 10. —What is the last word of many prayers signifying “so be it”? 12. —What is the term for social distinction in India? 13. —What is Biblical food that has fallen from heaven? 14. —What is the sandy desert in Central Asia? 16. —Which contemporary American poet has Ogden for a Christian name? 19. —Who is the ruler Qf Yugoslavia? 20. —What is the sixteenth part of a rupee? 21. —Which Pope reformed the calendar?
Down
1. —What was the armour for forearms? 2. —What is the ornamental screen covering the wall at the back of the altar? 3. —Which adjective means “lying between”? 4. —-What is the fourth part of an acre? 5. —What was the term for any follower of the XVlth century Italian theologian, Socinus?
B.—What name is given to a person who has enriched himself in the East?
11, —Who was the leader of the Australian army at the end of the first World War? 13.—What was the name of an ironclad, heavily gunned and armoured for coast defence? 15.—What is the name of the constellation pictured as hunter with belt and sword? 17. What corundum is used for polishing? 18. What is the fortified Italian harbour on the Istria Peninsula? •
cerns just such a Dame of the British Empire no less—who specialised in the natives at the head waters of the Sepik. Others in the cast include an American (who just wanted to see the pygmies), a terrible Old Timer True, a Dutchman, up to no good, the local Luluai and his extraordinary daughter.
The denouement comes when it is re vealed that the daughter is the offspring of the anthropologising DBE and the Luluai.
There have been numerous she-anthro pologists in the Sepik district in the last 25 years. I hope none of them sues the author.
SOME of the men whom Michener met in the South West Pacific were of that loud-mouthed variety who have learned nothing from the last six years of post-war adjustment. The type, as he says, who roar, “The bloody government says I have to stop knocking down my niggers. They are nothing but animals— it’s the only way you can train the swine.”
We all know the type: the ear-bashing pest who has perennial “trouble with me boys.” Michener says this attitude is one of the two reasons why he would not choose to live in Melanesia (the other reason is lack of health services).
The author should not be put off so easily. The loud-mouthed customer makes most noise but he is the small minority. The majority have, and always had, their own method of dealing with their native labour which is satisfactory to both sides. Unfortunately, the Micheners and other casual observers report only the braying ass; the reformers follow up and the result is a set of impractical would be reforming labour laws which have ham-strung such territories as P-NG since the war.
ABOUT Australia Michener has things to criticise in drinking habits, sport, speech, the 40-hour week, gambling, the formal dress of men (?), nineteenth century customs for women—most of it warranted. But where, oh where, Mr.
Michener can I see those surf beaches where the lifesavers pick up the dentures at low tide and put ’em in rows so the owners can claim them?
And another thing: You describe Aus tralia as a land of abundant food—steaks so big, and lemons like melons and fish and lamb chops and fish. That was a couple of years ago—something you did not legislate for was our 40-hour week (or as you say more correctly, our 35 hour week) which has sneaked right up on us.
Right now I cannot buy butter or milk in this fair city of Sydney—the dairy farmers have left the country for the city; there are no potatoes or onions—the growers say there is no profit in them; the steaks are no longer so thick or so cheap and the lamb chop is a disappear ing commodity because unfortunately, no one yet has bred a sheep which sheds its chops while continuing to grow wool.
Paradise, did you say? Tut, tut Mr.
Publisher. —J.T. (Return to Paradise, published by Ran dom House, 457 Madison Ave., New York, $3.50.) Passengers booked for Sydney by Qantas aircraft leaving Honiara on July 24 in clude Mrs. Gregory-Smith, wife of the Resident Commissioner British Solomon Islands Protectorate, and Miss Susan Gregory-Smith, en route to the United Kingdom, and Mr. V. J. Andersen, until recently Secretary to Government, and Mrs. Andersen, who will spend leave in Australia and New Zealand.