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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1957Vol. XXVII, No. 8

Socialist

p. 82 · Read in the full issue

How gaily do my little boys Improve the shining hour, With putting coffee in the tea i And strewing round the flow* How busily they spend their To polish half a chair; And when they’ve done their W task They leave the polish there.

How happily I follow them And pick up this and that, To straighten tablecloths \ flowers, Or places people sat.

I quite enjoy my little tasks, I’m happy in my way, It’s just that I do all the work,, And THEY collect the pay!

Noelle Masom

t Discovery of an anchor recei; at Pitcairn by Commander Irv Johnson (of the famous Amerii ship Yankee ) led to a spates letters in the correspondes columns of Sydney Morning Her-\ It was claimed to be the ano of the Bounty. But Mr. Erie Wild of Palm Beach, Sydney, in the letter (when argument on the s ject was closed) advanced theory that the anchor was fij a ship which had anchored .

Bounty Bay, and then had had) slip cables and run for it when weather broke. Some argued tt Bounty did not take an anchor Pitcairn.