The Island Press

Reports from the papers, compiled by John Carter

RAM BO the pup is just another mem ber of this cat family. The animals be long to Mr Appal Naidu of Naikabula, Lautoka. The pup’s mother died when it was six weeks old, and since then he has been living off the milk from the cat’s breast. The cat’s two male kittens don’t seem to mind and treat Rambo as a brother.

From The Fiji Times , Suva WHEN the House rose for the morn ing tea break at 10.45 the Prime Minister, Tofilau Eti Alesana, one of the two MPs for Faasaleleaga No. 1, immediately launched a violent attack on Le Tagaloa Pita, and told him to go and eat all the excrement around.

Le Tagaloa, MP for Palauli Le Fale fa, retaliated and told the Prime Minister to put all that excrement in his mouth and after the break said in the House that this was the first time a Prime Minister had ever uttered such words to a fellow MP.

From The Samoa Times , Apia THE Minister for Education Filipe Bole has asked churches to preach from the pulpits the needs for Fijians to make education part of their cul ture. Mr Bole was speaking to parents and pupils at Naivakasiga District School in Bua.

“It is clear in my mind that educa tion can, and must, become part of the Fijian culture as we have assimi lated religion into our culture. Educa

tion is like religion in that both are foreign cnltnres to the Fijians,” Mr Bole said.

From The Fiji Times, Suva MADANG General Hospital has treated more than 5000 people for venereal disease in the past three years. That is almost one-fifth of the total estimated population of Madang town and hospital medical superintendent Steven Demok believes tnat as many as 5000 more sufferers could have gone untreated.

Most of those treated are m the age group of 15-35, but they have ineluded children as young as two years.

From the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, Port Moresby APPROACHING Port Moresby I am always impressed by the beauty of the land, mountains, reefs etc and this time was no exception on a recent visit to PNG.

Unfortunately this first impression

was soon dispelled by the realisation

of how filthy Port Moresby is The early rains had turned the hills green but they had not washed away the rubbish, buai stains etc that give M ° resb y, its most distinctive character, .. r?5 ther Wlth the recognition of u V ' lness c °mes a realisation of the shockm S state of tbe roads, From a letter from Peter Schaper of Katherine, Australia, to the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, Port Moresby THE Monarch stressed the value and importance of the Holy Bible and the

hymnal.

“I was in American Samoa for the installation of Governor Peter Cole man - He took the oath of office from w®- C ,usd USti “/«M° Ua , wc •’ • e K / n 8 sal . c . N . or cb , tbe mm'stM w fi o sald the benedlctlon car .

From a speech by King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV of Tonga when opening a new church at Pelehake in Nukualofa