From the Islands Press
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CIN has a difficult path to tread.
It is the official mouthpiece of government but it also publishes readers’ opinions which must sometimes represent a different point of view. The government says that it agrees to this but that it objects to unsigned letters and pseudonyms because their publication makes it seem that CIN itself supports them and because such letters tend to be wilder and less reasonable than those that have names on them. So there it is.—tditorial comment in “Colony Information Notes', Tarawa, GEIC.
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UESTION: Why didn’t all the villages take part in working voluntarily at the airport project?
Editors answer: The sun is too hot (the heat killed me). — Honest answer in Tohi Tala Niue”.
rpHE Aitutaki Tere Party went on A a tour round the island of Rarotonga on Saturday and collected $394.84, three tins of cabin bread, two tins of paua and one carton of Pacific meat.— ltem from “Cook Islands News”.
IV/¥Y affection for your wonderful island is, I think, obvious in these programmes and certainly in colour it looks absolutely glorious.
It’s curious that, with all these new settlers you’re getting, I. as your principal publicist, should not have a piece of Norfolk ... but I am sure I shall one of these days.— Letter from Alan Whicker, after making a film on the island, in “The Norfolk Islander”.
MONDAY, Maka Campbells badly injured dog had an eye operation at Dr. Thomson’s residence.
The operation was undertaken by Dr. Thomson, Dr. Nemaia and Mrs.
A. Blanch. It was reported that the operation was successful and the dog is recovering fast even though it has lost one eye for good. This might have been the first successful opera tion on a dog on the island .—“Tohi Tala Niue” story.
"Thresh Meat! Fresh Meat!
X 1 We have just found at the bottom of our freezer several cartons of frozen meat and fish. Hurry in tonight as this will sell very quickly with the island short of meat.— Advertisement in the “Cook Islands News”.
A USTRALIANS must be mad» We could be home in our own beautiful country—yet we stay up here where we are forced to listen to political ravings, as Oscar Tammur’s talk of “reprisals” so clearly indicates.
Independence for people who can talk of reprisal killing! Someone’s surely joking. Let’s go home and leave them to it, I say.— A Letter from “Fed-up Wife” in “Papua New Guinea Post Courier”.
men were fined $5 each in * a Solomon Islands’ court recently for assaulting a man when they found his name written on a girl’s ukulele. —Report in “The Fiji Times”.
T PERSONALLY feel that people in the mini dresses look very horrid and uncivilised. With all our modern education and good culture, we should appear more cultured and civilised.
On the surface of things we are receding into the stone age and tree civilisation when people had a mini mum or no clothes at all. It is high time now we should teach our children to dress decently so that they may look more respectable.— Letter from Jai Narayan, in “The Fiji Times”. |P|NCE upon a time Mr. Peel had human skeletons in the science department (plastic of course). Now there are none. It is suspected that someone small might have crawled through the ventilators which for two years have not been fixed with covers. We need those bones. Have you a skeleton in your cupboard*?
Plea for help in the “Cook Islands News”.