Tapa Cloth

A Newspaper o[?] Tapa Cloth

From some old family recor Miss Edna McDonald, of .

Macquarie Street, Sydney—t is a niece of Mr. “Bill” Peai of Suva —recently unearthed copy of the “Fiji Times”, February 21, 1911.

There is nothing remarka about the date, that we knon but what is remarkable is tl the newspaper (a 4-page broc sheet) is printed entirely on sheet of tapa cloth.

Miss McDonald gave us t\ freak newspaper and we he sent it on to the heads of t “Fiji Times”, in Suva, and ash them if they can see any reas why tapa should, on tl occasion, have been substitui for newsprint. We also sugg* that, as it is a historic curiosity, it might be offered Mr. R. A. Derrick, at the F Museum.

Incidentally, the tapa h taken the type and the ink qu well—the newspaper is cleai and sharply printed.