By Fred Craib
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Mr. Fred Craib is a Scot who has been living in California for the last 40 years. But about the turn of the century he was wandering the world, and in 1910 he found himself living on Ocean Island, installing eleva tors for the phosphate bunkers.
There were then about 100 Europeans there, and their work contracts, he recalls, car ried a clause forbidding use of profane language towards natives. Mr. Craib’s nephew, Ralph Craib, who also lives in San Francisco, is well-known in P-NG and N-NG, where he recently spent 12 months on a writing scholarship.