from the is lan press

A letter by D. S. Reynolds in The Norfolk Islander Why do we have a public holiday on Norfolk Island for Australia’s “Australia Day” holiday?

In Australia, they don’t celebrate our Foundation Day, Anniversary (Bounty) day or Norfolk Day, which are very important dates for Norfolk Island.

We can well do without an Australian holiday that indirectly costs the Norfolk Island residents a lot of money paid public holiday rates for both public and private sectors; overtime rates for those businesses that do operate; staff for plane arrivals, etc., etc., etc. all for something that is so remote from our island.

From the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, Port Moresby.

The leader of the Japanese Youth Goodwill Cruises now in Port Moresby could not believe his eyes when he stepped off the cruise ship, Nippon Maru, yesterday.

“I cannot believe there are so many Japanese cars. Have you got Australian cars too?” Mr Nakamura asked.

From The Drum in the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, Port Moresby The College of External Studies in Port Moresby, after experiencing numerous break and enters, lashed out and bought a padlock for the front gate. The lock was stolen the first night.

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FROM THE DOMAINS OF MAHATMA GUATAM BUDHA From a letter by Julie Free, Port Moresby in the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier It deeply saddened me to read your front page story (Feb. 4) about children as old as 10 being denied an education.

How dare the government spend K 23 million on an extravagant Parliament House and K 300,000 on new cars for MPs when thousands of children are denied even a basic education?

How can we expect this nation to stand on its own two feet when the citizens of tomorrow are illiterate?

From the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, Port Moresby Pornographic magazines, an empty carton of beer, K 2 in cash, cassettes, betelnut and a guitar have all been found in cells at Beon Jail, Madang.

And yesterday jail chief Pious Kerepia suspended three top Beon officers for neglect of duty.

He has blamed the trio for the escape of eight dangerous prisoners two weeks ago.

The head of Western Province’s Ningerum jail, Kutilini Engnui, has also been suspended for selling alcohol.

All suspensions have been made with full pay.

From Tuvalu Echoes, Funafuti.

School children from one of the schools in Ames, lowa in USA who successfully located the Tuvalu hero, Mr Toma Fakapae celebrated the Tuvalu’s Independence Day on October 1, 1985.

In a letter to the Broadcasting and Information Officer, Mr Holland Panapa, Ms Suzanne Kelly, a teacher of the school said that the children were in white uniforms during the celebration.

Suzanne Kelly said that they tried to imitate a game that Peace Corps members who were on Nui in 1982 and 1983 showed them how to play local games.

The children ate cupcakes made of coconuts.

The children were also trying to learn some words and phrases in the Tuvalu language.

Suzanne Kelly also enclosed photographs of Toma Fakapae and two military men taken around in 1942. Ms Kelly told Mr Panapa that children of her school in USA are exchanging letters with students of Motufoua Secondary School at Vaitupu.

There are about 50 students in America who are having pen-pals at Motufoua Secondary School.

The Principal of Motufoua school, Mr Pafini Nouata has helped the students to correspond with students in America.

From some islands of the North Pacific...

Not strictly from the press of the islands with which we normally deal, but, assuredly, dealing with those amazing islands of the northern Pacific, called Japan: From a recently-published page in a government gazette recording recently-registered trade marks. Mr lan D.Burt was granted use of the name Sachi Bukuro, which may be roughly translated from the Japanese as “lucky bag,” as a brand name for the money purses he sells which are made from tanned kangaroo scrotums.

How the PNG Post-Courier’s cartoonist, Grass Roots, saw a report that schools in the Eastern Highlands were short of teaching material.