A Dream of the South
p. 129 · Read in the full issue
Seas
Pacific Islands newspapers and administrations receive re quests for information and for pen friends from all over the world. A quaint and rather touching sample reached the Fiji Public Relations Office from across the Iron Curtain recently and read as follows: Dear Sir Governor, Excuse me, I make bold to dis turb you. I am sorry I interrupt your work. I’m sorry I write this letter to you. I am the Polish boy and love the geography very much. For that reason I am thirsty to have the pen friend from exotic country. I want to correspond with the girl or the boy staying on Fiji Islands. I have not the address and send the letter to you because you know the people in your country.
Only you can help me. Perhaps I am the tactless boy but for give me, Sir. I am sorry for this letter but really didn’t meant to hurt you.”
As the PRO noted in replying to the letter and sending with it some literature on Fiji, not many 18-year-old boys in the Pacific could write as good a letter in Polish.