"We’re Waiting for Ships
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Ships . . .”
We’ve copra in the driers, We’ve copra in the shed, And if ’twere not already there We’d have it ’neath the bed.
We’ve copra in the lorry, Coming down each trip; But most of all we’d like to see Some copra in a ship.
We’ve copra in the coconuts, We’ve copra on the brain; It stands about in sacksful, It stands about in rain.
We’ve got it cut in little hunks, We’ve got it cut in strips: But most of all we’d like to see It sitting down in ships.
We’ve copra in the meatsafe, We’ve copra in the bath We’ve copra in the cabbage patch And down the garden path We’ve got it in the house, now While we all live in huts; Dur nuts they are not going— We’re all just going nuts.
Noelle Taylor.
'Jew Guinea.
Mr. V. J. Shearwin, Acting-Treasurer )f the British Solomon Islands Pro ectorate, was awarded the MBE in the Birthday Honours. Originally a Sydney •esident, he joined the BSIP Government it Tulagi more than 25 years ago as a and Customs Officer, and is well mown and respected throughout the protectorate.