Islands Life
pp. 43-45 · Read in the full issue
On this and the next two pages, PIM chuckles again at Islands life as observed by some of its cartoonists over the years. Represented are Kupa, Rob Walsh, 'Nolarae' of Niue, J.K.McCarthy of PNG, and John Collins. Most of PlM's cartoons £ were aimed at a contemporary news item, and the ones here refer to such events as France's decision to go nuclear; the demand fWmr' by Nauru for Australian soil to replace its worked-out
phosphate lands; the anger of Fiji at the airlines' decision to overfly Nadi; an enlarged PNG House of Assembly ; New Caledonia's swimming success at the 1966 South Pacific Games; Australia's 1966 decision to give PNG's white public servants compensation for loss of jobs; and the trials of Sk \ Islands golfers.
"Just a cockroach mark on the chart, eh?"
"Righto blokes! You can relax!"
“ He says there was a strong wind from the South ”
"I say, Smith—HOW many tons of soil did we say those Nauruan chappies could have?"
"Great shot! But that coconut was too big for the hole!
"We've borrowed New Caledonia's swimming coach for 1969!"
"Saves chasing the little blighters"
[?]W who has a haircut like a bush kanaka?"
"So far we've established that the Australians got it from the Germans who got it from the Tolai. . . . Now it seems the Tolai got it from the Gainings who got it from the Kaviengs who got it from the . . ."
"The housegirl has very little to do, really!"