Tarawa Residents Urged
p. 77 · Read in the full issue
Juice Galore!
To Use More Electricity
RESIDENTS in the majority of Pacific territories where a chronic shortage of electricity is the order of the day, would surely have rubbed their eyes at an official notice which recently appeared at Tarawa, Gilbert and Ellice Is. It read as follows: “In order to encourage persons to use electricity (a greater load being required for the efficient operation of the new generators), the new 240volt electric light bulbs will be initially supplied free to (Govern ment) officers when they move into their houses. ... It is hoped that consumers will increase the use of electrical appliances, such as kettles, irons, hot water jugs, etc.”
150 Years
Since
the "Duff"
This monument, recently unveiled at Point Venus, Tahiti, commemorates the ar rival of the English missionary ship "Duff", commanded by Captain James Wilson, with the first London Missionary Society missionaries in 1797.
The ladies in the photo are the Miles.
Lehartel, daughters of one of Tahiti's pioneer French families.
In December, 1936, a memorial was un veiled at Mahina, Tahiti, marking the graves of the two first missionaries of this group to die, Thomas Lewis and John Jeffer son.
Photo: Oscar Nordman.