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News Drum, Solomon Islands - Honiara Town council has warned that it will take legal action against people who build monuments over the graves of their relatives buried at the town cemeteries ...
PNG Post-Courier, Port Moresby
One of the first casualties of the National Works Authority decision to strike yesterday was none other than the Prime Minister, Mr Somare. The PM’s driver joined the strike leaving Mr Somare to take the wheel. Mr Somare was seen yesterday driving around in Wewak . . .
Micronesian News Service A total of 89 active leprosy cases have been identified on several islands in the Truk lagoon .. . Fifty-eight per cent of the active cases were not taking their medicine when questioned. They said they stopped taking medication because they ‘ran out of medicine and that ‘the medicine makes them impotent’.
From a letter in the Tonga Chronicle The following is no hearsay account. Rather. I have been eyewitness on many occasions where persons in authority in government offices and other places - try to get people to hand over sums of money or other valuables before being served. Note of course that such persons in authority are holding offices of emolument. I am therefore making representations herein on behalf of all of the ‘victims’ that such malpractices be terminated at once. It is also a curse to the nation. Indeed ‘Whosoever plays with fire is liable to be burnt thereby’. So many have been suffering this malady and it has grown worse resulting in even the most unthinkable of acts. What of the future? There may only be a cyclone named ‘Doom’ coming to get us!
News Drum, Solomon Islands Auki sub-treasury has received a big demand from business owners and farmers on Malaita for paper notes in exchange for one dollar coins. A spokesman said Auki people prefer the paper money because it is easier to carry around. The sub-treasury is continually being asked to exchange bags of coins for paper money.
Arawa Bulletin, PNG Motorists around Toniva would be well advised to be wary of two Asian gentlemen seen leaping from behind bushes, running the centre line and generally acting recklessly with their own health. These two intrepid butterfly collectors armed with long handled nets have forced many drivers to sudden stops of late.
Headline in Atoll Pioneer, Gilbert islands Life was better today than yesterday.
Marianas Variety
It s been said that you can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish.
Norfolk Islander At the Randwick Horse Sales in 1977, Mrs Jean Mawson purchased a stallion which, when raced around the Sydney circuit seemed to take more interest in the fillies than in winning the race. Anson Bay, as Jean named the horse, was sent to the country where he was ‘doctored’ and given a chance to do better than
he did in Sydney. He apparently now has his mind on his work and so far has run in four races, winning the four of them. Jean says that if Anson Bay continues as he is going now, he will be putting Norfolk Island on the map.
Fiji Times
Wanted: A hangman. Remuneration $3O a head. Apply Controller of Prisons, Suva Gaol, Suva. This could be an advertisement you might read in your morning paper one day as parliament votes this month to reintroduce hanging as the only appropriate punishment for convicted murderers. It’s an advertisement the Controller of Prisons, Mr Wally Smith, is not particularly looking forward to placing in the papers.
From a letter to Lae Nius, PNG How come I heard of five elected City Councillors booking themselves in at one of the best hotels in Manila for two whole weeksjust for a two or three day conference? ... Remember us back here in our squatter settlements, our stinking toilets and our pot-hole roads ... we will remember you, don't worry.
Taraka-man Letter to Cook Islands News I feel I must complain to you about the Women’s Hour programme. Just who does Mrs Keenan think she is. Instead of her programme being a proper women’s hour it is just a lecture programme and when did she become an authority, to preach to other women about the upbringing of children. Another maddening thing was at Christmas time, she had the cheek to tell all young girls to keep their clothes on while tourists are here.
Does she think that tourists are all sex crazy?
Cook Island News From Tuesday of next week the Cook Islands News will be available with fresh bread in the morning from your local store.
For the first time since the Cook Islands News came into existence it will be published as a morning newspaper which will enable Cook Islanders to enjoy a custom of many other parts of the world, that of reading the morning paper with their breakfast.
Savali, Western Samoa In all the comings and goings lately among the politicians trying to figure out who should be prime minister, there is one section of the community who are not being consulted. Journalists. Our plight is acute. Can you imagine trying to get a Prime Minister Laufaleaigalelauvaelenoatia Sefo opens factory into a two column headline? .. . Fortunately the good people of Gaigaifomauga Number One saw our problem and Laufaleaigalelauvaelenoatia Sefo is not even in the Fono.
The Fiji Times Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, Prime Minister, when told during an interview that on May 13 he would be 59: That’s correct.. . one more year to the compulsory retirement year, according to government. I can tell you this: If I can see the possibilities of a coalition - at least a government that succeeds me will be more representative of the people of Fiji than I have been able to achieve PH walk out tomorrow. My primary concern is to leave behind a stable government.
Letter to New Nation, PNG I would like to make a few points about those ‘town birds’ those ladies who roam about the town, stirring up trouble between married couples. Ever since I arrived in Wewak Tve heard and seen many couples reporting these problems to the police.
Sometimes they even appear in court over these troubles. The wives are the ones who always complain about their husbands going around with these ladies. So, you big boys, think twice before taking any action to upset your wives. And you big, effective ladies, watch your movement and actions. There are many single and good looking men about, so why not start picking on them?