Islands magic
p. 27 · Read in the full issue
That old, old Islands magic
TjWERYONE knows that in the Islands time doesn’t have quite the same importance that it does in metropolitan countries. , . . ... , , We were prompted to fhmk along ,hese lm f ° n February 24 when three copies of the weekly newsletter issued by the Western Samoan Government public relations division arrived in our mail. The newsletters were for
the week ending August 26, Sep tember 2 and September 30, 1966.
The two for August 26 and Sep tember 2 were posted on January 26 (five months after the events recorded in them) and the one for September 30 on February 3 (four months late).
All were marked with the words “air mail”, but each one bore only 3d in stamps, so that they were sent by sea mail.
Not that it mattered. Might just as well have been sealed in a bottle and chucked hopefully into Apia Harbour.