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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1956Vol. XXVII, No. 2

[?]Ashing Success

p. 93 · Read in the full issue

sweet the tropic sounds are! ... e birds that wake at dawn, wild fowl in the tree-tops, e tame fowl on the lawn. . . lovely though these warbles, ere’s no noise can surpass crash of falling china, e snap of breaking glass. its crashity-crash and tinkle, loops! we go again! e’s Auntie Grace’s wedding gift ?oing down the drain, ve broken half the breakfast ups— dw let us break the rest”! sh to God they’d choose the rorst; ey always choose the best! tropic life is tranquil, 3 tropic life is sweet; iroken only by the sound large and plodding feet, if you want to change the Line, t clean the Swedish glass— leave the kitchen just a tick 1 hear what’s going to pass! t’s crashity-crash and tinkle— -3 best jug’s come apart; ’ve broken baby’s bottle, think they’ll break my heart!) never choose the candlesticks which we’re both depressed! when he’s left to do his worst ;s he always choose our best?

Noelle Taylor.

ainville. ! Resident Commissioner of the Islands in a public notice re i appealed to motorists in ;onga to drive more carefully, warned Government drivers they are liable to be dismissed seeding the speed limit, which mph maximum on the open