For Administrative
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Convenience
Like people in a lot of other places, they have realised in the Cook Islands (population: 19,000) that the modern world runs on paper.
The Cook Islands News re ported recently that last year some £ll,OOO worth of stationery was imported into the Cooks.
“It would be a safe bet to say,” the News went on, “that a good £3,000 worth of this paper found its way into local wastebaskets one way or another . . . and some of it went for even less descriptive purposes, to wit—letterheads entitled ‘Gov ernment of the Cook Islands’, were seen in one of the Admin istrative public conveniences.”