From the Islands Press

M M VTAKED women were Mm £ L* what Toke Sawej saw ■ H on his recent trip to the States. It seems that while driving hrough San Francisco with Albatross Hading Company manager, Dan Neb ett, the two businessmen came upon hree young ladies in their birthday inest. Sounds like the way people Tom the mainland used to talk about he people from the islands.— ltem rom the “Micronitor”, Majuro, US Trust Territory.

PNG AN children are usually well mannered and polite, but this mage was spoilt for some recent ourists. They were taken to see the ►low holes at Houma by local riends. Children persistently badgered be visitors to buy souvenirs and even sked for money. When the visitors efused and asked the childern to top pestering them, the children be ame rude. They followed the isitors, shouting at them, and then, s the visitors left in a car, the hildren threw sticks and stones.

Tie case could be an isolated one, ut it gave this small group of >urists a bad impression.— News em in the “Tonga Chronicle”.

PHE Police Department have for l sale a number of young fowls hich may be bought alive or ressed. If any person is interested, lease apply at the Police Office in Jofi. All orders for dressed birds ill be delivered by the Police ourier.— ltem in “Tohi Tala Niue”.

IS a regular visitor to Lord Howe over the past nine years, I rongly object to the decision of the ord Howe Island Board to rid the land of the goats. You will agree lat they have been a part of Lord owe for many, many years and ive become a way of life. I agree tat they eat some plant life, but they ve back to the tourist and animal ver a lasting memory, as the young ds frolic from crag to crag, watched rer by their dutiful parents. There a place for both without spoiling e surroundings.— Letter from Harry othery to Lord Howe’s “Signal”, he same issue announced that hunt g parties had killed 180 wild goats, actically the island’s entire popula m; they had been doing extensive image to island flora.

A TOTAL of 74 people were brought before a special sitting of the Native Court at Avu, Guadal canal, to face charges of taking part in a fight in a public place. The charges arose when 47 people from the Mole area and 27 people from the Talise area met and began to fight.

No weapons were used and nobody was seriously hurt. The fight started

after a Talise man refused to pay the bride price for his marriage to a girl from Mole. He thought the price was too much.— ltem from BSIP news sheet, Honiara.

IN general the current outlook on Niue for a rapid increase in copra production is discouraging. An ex tensive campaign which included school competitions and radio news items, has had no effect. Observa tions made at village meetings indi cate that, with other sources of in come available, the revenue formerly obtained from the sale of copra is becoming of less importance to the

eople in their daily lives, and the resent copra production methods re regarded as “old industry”, which oes not appeal to the young people, lany of whom are migrating to New Zealand, — Item in “Tohi Tala Niue”. an incident in a L Nausori school where five senior upils were caught doing examina ons for five junior pupils, the Education Department has arranged system under which future candi ates for examination will be identi ed by their teachers before they iter the examination room.— ltem in iji Government newssheet, Suva.

AST passionfruit season we were -4 paying up to 400 scheme and rivate growers each month and many mes there was some confusion ;cause growers would give different ames to the buyers, or little children ould give their own names instead f their parents’ names. To avoid lis confusion next season we have ;cided to register all growers and ve them a number.— ltem in “Tohi ala Niue”.

THERE’S a great gulf between the - constitutional status of Fiji and merican Samoa, as we all know, ow big? Well, Fiji’s 1971 budget as revealed in parliament by the inister of Finance. The Samoan rritory learnt the size of its 1971 idget when the Governor announced at the weekly Pago Pago Rotary lub lunch. —Comment in the “Flot m and Jetsam” column of “The ji Times”. i SWITCHED radio telephone service is now available between e Solomons and Kenya, Uganda, mzania, Malawi and Zambia. This available because there is now a rect telephone link between Aus ilia and Kenya via the Indian

Ocean satellite. The P and T Depart ment say that the rates to these East African countries are 58.61 for three minutes, plus $2.87 for each additional minute.— ltem in BSIP lewssheet, Honiara. of the times? ... a faded T-shirt printed with the slogan, ‘Help stamp out poverty—give me HO”, worn by a young boy who ooked as if he could do with it, too, —ltem in “The Fiji Times”.

JJPEAKING as a teacher myself I can assure you that distractions caused by teachers wearing mini-skirts lo happen in parts of the territory. am a mission teacher. And I know hat Standard 6 children in one school ;ot into serious trouble with one eacher who wore a mini. They be ame uncontrollable, the boys especi lly, and it was several days before ve found out why there was trouble.

Ve had the same kind of trouble in wo other schools in different districts. -Extract from a letter by S. T. Bare eba to the “Post-Courier”, Port doresby. rHE Head Teachers have thought very much about using “ng” in tead of “g”. They have talked about ie matter and have now decided that will be all right to use “ng” in :ead of “g”. From now on teachers ill teach pupils the “ng” spelling as i Halamahanga and Lialangi.— ltem i “Tohi Tala Niue”.

"iUR formula for success as a * country has been described as production divided by population quals standard of living”. Recent imily planning figures indicate that early half the people of the colony re readily accepting contraceptive lethods as a means of having only le number of children they want, hey do this for common-sense per >nal reasons. But in order to break ie back of the population problem requires that all the people of the >lony restrict their families to no lore than three children. —ltem in Colony Information Notes”, Tarawa.

"\OGS are not, definitely not, * allowed on Angoram airstrip, ut they’ve been going there anyway, id pilots have been getting upset lout it. So last week the Deputy dministrator, Mr. Newman, made ie dog ban official. He officially 'oclaimed the airstrip, controlled by ie Administration, to be a “pro fited area for dogs”. Just what ould happen to dogs now trespassing i the strip, he did not know.— ltem “Post-Courier”, Port Moresby. (over)

IN a very short period last week the people of Mauke collected $64.68 for the East Pakistan Disaster Relief Fund. — Item in the “Cook Islands News”.

PEOPLE may have noticed that the maximum and minimum tem peratures given on 2ZN have dropped sharply over the last week. This is not because there has been a sudden cold spell, but because the Radio Department has changed its thermo meters. —Item in “Tohi Tala Niue".

ON December 22, Te loteba had his toes crushed by the end of Tabakea at Bairiki wharf. As a re sult of the accident, Te loteba lost one of his toes. The same day Nei Teebantaake Taubenua had both her feet crushed by the end of the Tabakea. It’s believed she was trying to stop her children from going too near when her feet were caught.— Item in “Colony Information Notes”, Tarawa.

A SIXPENNY piece dated 1910 was found in the mouth of a fish during a feast at Viru Harbour re cently. The coin was very worn and was found by one of the guests, Mr.

Billy Salole. Everybody was very in terested to see the coin and wondered bow it had got into the fish’s mouth. —ltem from BSIP newssheet, Honiara.

AFTER a seaman passenger had punched the driver of a taxi which was being driven along the PWD jetty at Walu Bay, the taxi swerved and fell into the sea. The driver escaped uninjured; the taxi was later hauled out of the water. Police are making investigations. —ltem in Fiji Government newssheet, Suva.

THE public are hereby advised that the 1 p.m. clinic usually taken 3y the Director of Health on Mon lays and Fridays will still be avail able and will be taken by the Acting Director of Health, Dr. H, Nemaia, >r if he is absent, the clinic will be conducted by one of his appointed leputies.— Notice in the “Tohi Tala Niue".

ON Saturday evening a nine-year old girl was found by one of he Cook Islands Trading Co. staff n the store. She was smoking a cigarette behind the counter and was n possession of $l7 and goods taken rom the store. She told she had gained entrance |H

through a window.— ltem WB fip

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