Guide to parliamentary fashion?

The Solomons Governing Council has taken a rather wary look at the dress of members. At its recent meeting it wondered whether it were possible to “traditionalise” dress. Members at present wear Western style lounge suits, and the only relief is the vivid shirt and tie variations chosen by some of the members. Govco finally decided that the select committee on constitutional reform should ask the local people themselves whenever the opportunity arose while on tour. Solomons tradi tional dress varies from a few wisps of bark to the Polynesian mats of the eastern outer islands.

Mention of traditional mats brought the observation from Mr Solomon Mamaloni that one member the BSIP Attorney General, Mr Renn Davis, an Englishman, would look interest ing “wrapped in his Dunlopillo mattress’ '.