Travellers' Tales

BACK from Fiji, travellers were quoted by a Sydney paper at the end of July as saying that among the Fijian dishes they nad sampled was “taro —the vegetable made out of palm-tree roots.’

Considering that taro (dalo in Fijian) is a staple foodstuff in virtually every South Sea island where it can be grown, it is puzzling to account for this pearl of misinformation.

And then Comte de Colonna- Ceccaldi, en route from Tahiti to New Caledonia, recorded a dis

appointment.

At an outlying island of French.

Oceania he thought he had discovered “a group of Polynesians untouched by civilisation.”

But he found that this was an illusion; the wheel had merely turned full circle, and young women who normally wore “bras” sometimes discarded them for the edification of tourists with cameras. fl Miss Elizabeth McClurg and Mr.

Ken Weare, who were married at the Townsville City Baptist Taber nacle on July 9, will make their home at Port Moresby.