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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1958Vol. XXVIII, No. 11

Untrained Nz Stomach

p. 64 · Read in the full issue

The fact that every membem his party suffered at one time other from intestinal or bronco troubles, during a tour in Polynei was commented upon by the Islands Minister (Mr. Mathison)j a press handout last month.

There is no connection, of couu but the same handout reman, that the party, in its tour, been presented at the Islands fee with foods more or less strange; NZ palates, namely—chicken, su; ing pig, taro root, varo (sea cee pede), unga (coconut crab), fac (fish cooked in taro leaf with co: nut cream), ikamata (raw pickled in lime juice), ariri, (shf fish), remu (raw seaweed), yi kumara and breadfruit, n (mashed banana cooked with rowroot), takehi (pawpaw mashed taro), as well as coco; milk, watermelon, pawpaw, cusfc apples, avocado pears, bananas oranges.