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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1956Vol. XXVI, No.8

[?]Ound Trip For Roti

p. 127 · Read in the full issue

r ould appear that Roti Maruata, L7-year-old Tahitian girl, is the ;est victim of the “white man i woman” disease that afflicts tourists to Tahiti. ;i stowed away on the French Tahitien on the February e of that vessel from Tahiti dney, via Vila and Noumea, i claimed *hat a passenger on ''ahitien told her to go to his on sailing day, and she ht he had a ticket for her.

SToumea a Danish passenger on ien was arrested and sentenced ) days imprisonment for assist stowaway. Roti is now home bound for Tahiti on the same . and will, she said, “never Tahiti again.”

H Dr. F. J. Harlow Advisor on Tech nical Education to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, made a tour of technical and other schools in

Fiji in February. Dr. Harlow visited Fiji in 1952 in connection with a vocational training scheme sponsored by the South Pacific Commission.