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The Tahiti Sun Press The all-time best story about restaurant service in Tahiti involves a very proper French woman who ordered some kiir, a special and expensive drink served in very small quantities. To the woman’s horror the waitress returned with a water glass filled with kiir.

When the woman explained that the quantity was far too much the waitress simply tossed most of it into the bushes and asked ‘ls that enough?’

From a student teacher’s letter in the Papua New

Guinea Post-Courier, Port Moresby

The Goroka Teachers College is becoming a cheap hotel. We are told to move in and out of our dorms. We are told to share our beddings. The next thing is they are going to tell us to share our girl friends.

The Fiji Times, Suva Fuatai Solo, 17, of Western Samoa, can put a monkey to shame when it comes to coconut tree climbing. He flashed nine metres up a tree at Sukuna Park (Suva) in just 4.88 seconds leaving his opponents scrambling. Fuatai’s time was a record. He has won the coconut tree climbing contest for three years running.

From the letters columns Cook Islands News,

Rarotonga

Those who wish to praise or criticize me, please make it cool as I have no intention of replying ’cause time is becoming devastatingly precious these days. It wasn’t that precious a mere 10 years ago.

The Samoa Observer, Apia, Western Samoa Western Samoa this week launched its first inter-continental missile . . . Seriously though, the model rockets are part of a science project by Peace Corps volunteer Paul Kerrer, a science teacher at the Marist Brothers school. Finding the class very interested in rockets, Paul felt a model display would make the lessons more vivid.

The News Drum, Honiara, Solomon Islands An old man from Maniwiriwiri village in the Bauro district of Makira was rushed to Kira Kira hospital after he was bitten four times on his left leg and thigh by a wild pig. Jemuel Warimahai, aged 58, was hunting for wild pigs with four of his dogs when the incident happened. Mr Warimahai said that it was about 9am when his dogs found the pig and speared it, but missed. The pig ran away and was chased by the dogs for about two hours before it decided to take revenge on him. He said that he was only a few feet away when the pig saw him and charged towards him. He tried to escape by climbing a betelnut tree, but it broke and he fell. Mr Warimahai said he was lying on the ground when the wild pig came and bit him twice on his left leg and also twice on his left thigh. He managed

to get hold of the pig’s head and pulled it down towards a small stream where he killed the pig by drowning it in a pool. He said that the pig also killed one of his dogs. Mr Warimahai said that in spite of his.wounds, he managed to walk back and told the villagers what happened. He was later taken to hospital by a landrover. He said that some men in the village went to look for the pig, but were not able to find where he left it.

The Ponape Sun The owner of Downtown Bar reported that an incident occured in her bar. A male broke the head of a female by striking her with a chair.

A letter to the editor published in the Papua New

Guinea Post-Courier, Port Moresby

When I opened your newspaper on August 5 I read a headline ‘Violence and lawlessness in highlands are rampant’. On other pages there are reports of attacks on drivers along the Highlands Highway. Yet parliament is sending troops to Vanuatu. Surely it would be more sensible to use these troops to combat the breakdown of law and order in Papua New Guinea.

From a motor-wrecking firm’s advertisement in the

Fiji Times, Suva

Largest wreckers of Fiji From Pete’s Diary in The Samoa Times, Apia, Western Samoa Vaipouli College staff and students, led by Principal Manumal uga Logologo, visited parliament yesterday. One of the things they no doubt noted was the shortage of water at Mulinuu. The start of the opening prayer was nearly drowned out by the gurgling of water being poured into the tank, hidden just above Mr Speaker’s chair, to flush the toilets.

Marianas Variety News and Views, Saipan

Tinian has good roads and few cars, but. .It was reported that the first casualty of a Marine Corps exercise is feeling stiff and sore.

The marine and four buddies were on night patrol and feeling a bit weary, flopped down on what they assumed to be a deserted road.

Four of them were awakened by an approaching motor vehicle, and scrambled out of the way, but the unfortunate fifth was run over.

The driver of the car, said to be a nurse, put the injured leatherneck into her car and took him to the dispensary. But since it has no X-ray equipment, the marine was flown to the Naval Regional Medical Center in Guam where he was examined and found not to have serious injuries. He was returned to Tinian where he is probably looking for better places to sleep than a road.

The Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, Port Moresby Here’s one for the record books. Puzzled caller phoned to say he’d been concerned that the Department of Works and Supply had been uncommunicative of late. Seems they had run out of 7-toea stamps which was why, he had been told, they had not sent out any mail for 10 days.

The Ponape Sun A black three-pound chicken belonging to Fred Primo of Awak was lost in the recent tropical storm on Ponape . . . Primo said no feathers were found in the vicinity. He does not know whether the chicken was blown away in the storm or was taken while his family hid from the high winds.