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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1953Vol. XXIII, No. 8

Amused!

p. 74 · Read in the full issue

Spaniards May Not Be

rESE were the questions set in a school examination in the Cook Islands (part of Poly nesia) : “What do you mean by pollin ation? What is self-pollination?

What is cross-pollination?

This was one answer received by the teacher: “Pollinations are all the Maori People with brown skins. Most of them lived in warm countries. The Maoris here in the Cook Islands are pollinations, too. The cross pollinations are the people of Spain.

The self-pollination is the maoris of the Cook Islands.”