Origin Of Game Of Pua
pp. 35-36 · Read in the full issue
(A Letter to the Editor) Fan article on the game pua, published in the PIM for October, 1950, I wrote that “the record throw for the island is 1,096 ft. (over half a mile) ...”
Your correspondent, Jack Neale, challenges the above statement and says that 1,096 ft. is under a quarter of a mile. Mr. Neale is right of course.
Mr. Neale also doubts my assertion that the game of pua originated in Aitutaki. Here again I may be wrong. If any of your readers can give information on the place of
origin of the game of pua it would be of interest.
I am, etc.,
John Rolley.
Tahiti,
The great increase in offences committed by traders in country districts, by buying inferior quality copra and cocoa has caused Western Samoa’s Chief Judge to issue a warning from the bench that in future offenders will be punished by cancellation of their buying licenses instead of by money fines as at present. ‘ Some traders are making large profits from the pur chase of inferior cocoa-beans.
Mr. Lex Lannoy, an X-ray tech nician in the Papua-New Guinea Administration, and Mr. Les Hast ings, a member of the P-NG District Services Dept, left Melbourne in July on the Oronsay to attend the Scouts’ World Jamboree in Austria.
Both are leaders of the Scout move ment among Chinese, Malay and native boys in Papua-New Guinea.