Tattoo's Showing

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lE letters to the editor column in the Niue Newsletter, are of fun although no doubt ; of the writers (who nearly all themselves “Reader”) are ly serious. There is the fellow

who in a recent issue begs all and sundry not to drink their monthly issue of beer at one sitting and then go around begging for more. Says he: “Some of you people buy all your permit in the first week of the month.

After that you go back and bother those boys in the office to allow you to have some more liquor which you very well know it is wrong to do.

They tell you that you have pur chased all your permit and you have none left but you always argue and say ‘never mind the permit, I have plenty of money left.’ When those boys cannot meet your request you become silly and follow the backs of

other permit-holders begging for a share from their rations.”

Which just goes to show that even in an enlightened Islands society where drink is permitted, there are problems. There are seven other paragraphs to the letter, all in the same vein, and then this piece of Emily Post advice on the right thing to do when grogging on: “When you go into the bond to buy your liquor please don’t go in there without a shirt on. Please wear something decent in public.

Some of you have tattoos on your arms and backs which are not quite suitable for the public to see so it is best to have a shirt on,”