[?] ery Famous Bath

Apricot-Coloured [?]rcelain [?]e's Heir To A

• Are sea snakes venomous? Mr.

G. Hicks, District Commissioner, inus District, Hew Guinea, says t, and on board the “Malaita” in bruary gave an accident-free nonstration of snake-charming ) right).

HE snake was one of several collected by the crew of Malaita and destined for ronga Park Zoo, Sydney. The 5W of this ship give up a lot of le to keeping the zoo supplied bh tropical fish, etc. Special ated tanks are installed on the at deck.

Vlr. Hicks is the present custodian the famous bath-tub imported ring the latter days of the war an American general for the use visiting film star, Carole Landis. ie visit was a sensation at the ie, and many are the stories told out it—for example, the incident the spaghetti that during a nquet in her honour fell from r fork and, to the embarrassment the Brass Hats, lodged in her iple bosom. rhe general’s quonset house at rengau has, with a bit of

renovation here and there, now become the District Residency— and there still sits the bath —a huge diagonal tub set in a square of apricot-coloured porcelain, mute memorial to the war, the Yanks, the base they built up and now is no more, and finally to the film queen who had an untimely death some years later.

Mr. Hicks is a bachelor. He is not addicted to apricot-coloured porcelain, and prefers a shower bath.