Puka Puka is Still

Out of this World

PUKA PUKA is still one of the most isolated inhabited islands in Polynesia.

When the Cook Islands trader Charlotte Donald arrived there on August 23 she was the first outside connection since December 3.

Some days were spent loading the island’s copra and a party of copra makers and their families was taken aboard to relieve those stationed at Nassau Island. The latter group had been on the island for over a year, Nassau belongs to the Puka Puka people, but, rather than settle there permanently, they prefer to go in parties of 80 to 100, including families, for about a year, and then “change the guard.”

About 75 tons of copra was cleared from the two islands by the Charlotte Donald, 261 tons of it from Nassau. t The Port Moresby Provisional Committee of the Australian Asso ciation of the United Nations is vigorously pressing its campaign on behalf of the UN appeal fund foi children. The Administrator of Papua-New Guinea has asked for the support of all Territory people.

U After visiting the Fijian troops in Malaya, the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. A. Lennox-Boyd) wrote to the commanding officer: “Your Fijians have won all hearts in this country, and they have cer tainly won mine. . . I congratulate you most warmly on a splendid battalion who have shown them selves, whether in the jungle or on

the playing-field, to be secon none.”

H Professor Kenneth B. Cun land, in charge of an Audi

University geographical

economic survey of Western Ss has taken up residence in a Sau village to gain a first-hand IoJ ledge of the country.