Do You Remember?

rWENTY years ago this month, PIM was celebrating its second birthday—just as we now are reator had reason to express the urprise he did in a note to readers n the occasion of our second anniersary He said: “PIM went out into the 'aciflc as a stranger within two ears it has found thousands of riends*in the Islands and in almost very country in the world.” Since hen we have weathered a World Var, and. what was infinitely torse, a post-World War. The prob- 3ms Of this minute are every bit S thorny as those of 1932, but we bill have our thousands of Pacific riends, ;fir which we are grateful.

Her H e extracts from our

BCOnd-birthday issue.

In a depression-time hunt for copra Iternatives, tobacco-growing was getting little thought in Papua-New Guinea. i a long article, F. Robartson of Rabaul, •aced the history of tobacco-growing— hich never has been more than experiicntal except on the part of native rowers—from the earliest German efforts f 1900 or even earlier, to 1932. Both ermans and Australians had favourable ;ports from Europe on local leaf—and nfavourable reports from Australian lanufacturers.

It was suggested by Mr. Robartson that I! iS aC « ♦* r ? wn / in . a . great . many of „ districts . < and kn ™ m Pidgin * br us ) was indigenous. It would be teresting to know if subsequent research is proved this so. In these days of aport restrictions and dollar shortages, * obacc ? , indust ry for P-NG might bear ching into again.

The epd had come to the New Guinea luli had War . %"? *" com ; mies had settled down to od per pound U had been bd.

“The suggestion that administrative *-f New Guinea shall ' wrought together in a new Tropical KftSv C T S iS bein f dis cusse d , unficially, by representatives of both

services ... The Papuans are indifferent so lon ? as their present liberal super a”"“ai*o,in nd privileges are * * * An amazing religious disturbance was reported from Onotoa in the southern Gilberts. Two months before they were

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ail their copra to the London Society. They were warned of the conse quences by the local native Magistrate £ ho happened ot be one of the few L on l a? atboli f s ® n the isla nd. This f/ e i ch e ° n a r , eli ? iou f Uph.t ‘and hS 0.H.. s ‘ I, ltt"nSiis “I culminated in a bloody battle wherein 40 Catholics were driven off the island in canoes - The native Magistrate, a JV an of . great courage, stood up to face

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covered. Two other RCs were killed with bottles and crowbars. A European District Officer and a Missionary arrived pro videntially and restored peace. The guilty were punished. * * * “Prices paid for the last shipment of Cook Islands oranges were 1/6 in packing shed; 2/- on the wharf Rarotonga.” * * “The Administration (of Western Samoa) will enforce the ordinance pro hibiting cohabitation between Chinese coolies and Samoan women. A Chinese coolie came before the Court last week reused of entering a fale with a Samoan girl. He was sentenced to a month’s gaol. This will doubtless act as a deterrent to similar offenders ” (Well did it?) ’ * * i *.

“In June all the citizens of Suva wel corned the Australian test cricket team

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man was mobbed by the Fijians on the Fijians and Indians gathered to stare at w.7,d erleketers in the or to™ councillors and a few friends but Suva was not to be den ed a e 2ly 6 crowded into the Town Hall ”