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p. 67 · Read in the full issue
By Judy Tudor
A piquant and entertaining survey of social and political conditions in the emerging Nations of the South Pacific
Pacific Islands Monthly—December, 1966—A
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rIS newsheet cannot let last week’s elections pass without once again stating the belief that the discrimination between “is lander” and others at these elec tions is undemocratic and com pletely foreign to our Australian way of life.
The Lord Howe Island Act allows all persons over the age of 21 to vote providing they have been residing on the island for the 12 months prior to elections. But only “islanders” are eligible to stand for election.
Signal recognises that Lord Howe Island must and perhaps should be different at times from
the concrete, ordinary Samoan worker, the individual who must support his family day in and day out.— Editorial in the “Samoa Times ”, Pago Pago.
IN 1919 when the American President, Mr. Wilson, made 14 orders for the German Govern ment to sign as his terms for peace, the French President, M.
Clemenceau, said: “The good Lord saw fit to make 10 orders for the peace and good govern ment of all mankind, but this Mr.
American President has seen fit to add another four.”
In Norfolk Island today, with only 8 ordinances or orders short
economic ments that ce I left o, I saw
some Kodacnromes ot the capital recently. What a growing modern town it is. The future looks bright indeed, and HM Government can indeed be proud of what they have done and yet plan to do for the Solomon Islanders. Letter from Wilbur T. Clark, of Wel lington, New Zealand, in the “BSIP News Sheet”.
WE may be the languid, trade wind-soothed South Sea Islands. But this doesn’t stop us from full appreciation of a four day break in the old routine, whatever that may be.— Editorial comment in the “Cook Islands News”.