The Island Press
p. 50 · Read in the full issue
Compiled by John Carter
THE GOVERNMENT has more power than we believed possible. .. according to its official 1988 diary. Good Friday falls on Sunday, April 17, Easter Sunday falls on the Tuesday, and Easter Monday on the Wednesday.
From The Drum, Papua New Guinea Post-Courier , Port Moresby .
RADIO COOK ISLANDS as from this week will not air 25 Polynesian and Eng lish songs that are on a banned list.
According to the radio station’s pro gram Director Mrs Ngamarama Syme, the playlist consists of songs callers regard as “dirty songs”.
Songs banned include “Touch Me” by Samantha Fox, “Boom! Boom!” by Paul Lekakis, “My Ding a Ling” by the late Prince Tui Teka and “Male Stripper” by Man to Man.
From the Cook Islands News , Rarotonga.
THE MELBOURNE CUP: At this famous annual event in the Australian calendar there is always a parade of ladies of fash ion, some of the frocks costing as much as
$4OO. Seems an awful waste of money, when you can sew one at home for $4 or $5!
From the Cocounut Telegraph , Savusavu, Fiji.
JOSEFA LAWAKELI, Tamavua Hospital worker, Tamavua: The only celebration on Christmas Day will be my granddaugh ter’s first hair-cut. Otherwise there really won’t be much to celebrate.
From a poll by The Fiji Times on how people will spend Christmas.
MEMBERS YESTERDAY continued de bate over whether the Speaker of the House should have a salary increase from $17,000 to just over $30,000 backdated to August the first.
The increase presented in a Civil List Amendment so far has been juggled back and forth with support from the govern ment side and the opposition suspecting a “decoy duck” they believe will pave the way for increases to ministers’ salaries.
From the Cook Islands News , Rarotonga.
Nicknamed “Papa-Poule,” A Re
tired fighting rooster made front page headlines recently when he took over the egg-sitting chores of a hen.
“In the 20 years that I have raised them, this is the first time that I’m seeing a fight ing rooster sit on eggs,” Odon Tschan told Depeche de Tahiti recently.
From Tahiti Sun Press , Papeete.
“I BELIEVE that if it was God’s will for Fiji to be settled and ruled by Indians, he would have put Indians there in the first place, but obviously this was not the case.”
From an article Matangi Tonga by Fijian journalist Jope Balawanilotu.
THE AUDIT Office was still waiting at the end of last year for answers to queries on accounts for as far back as 1981 of the Western Samoa Shipping Corporation.
When the Audit Office tried to reconcile receipts and bankings in June 1986, the master receipt book disappeared during the work and because of this and other missing records Audit finally concluded the “task was not possible to complete...”
From the Samoa Times, Apia.