Reports from the papers. Compiled by John Carter

The Island Press

THE people of Western Highlands and visitors from other parts of the country and overseas were treated to four days of entertainment in Mount Hagen.

The province held two days of celebra tions to mark its 10th anniversary. This was followed by the famous Mount

Hagen Show.

The show this year was bigger and better with more activities to entertain the estimated 50,000 people who passed through the gates ...

Two smoked bodies from the Aseki area of Morobe Province were put on

general display, along with other stands

of traditional artifacts and agricultural

produce.

From the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, Port Moresby A CATECHIST was beaten up and his car smashed in an incident involving a village curfew at Luatuanu’u. Sources say the villagers challenged the catechist be cause his car was going too fast during village curfew. This led to an exchange of words and the assault on the catechist who afterwards had to receive medical treatment. Police are investigating.

From the Samoa Times, Apia

PAPUA New Guinea’s only drive-in cine ma, the Skyline in Port Moresby, has closed after 30 years of operation.

Papuan Skyline Theatres general man

ager Robert Godsall told the Post- Courier that competition from television and pirated video-tapes of new movies had reduced drive-in audiences to the point where the theatre was no longer

paying proposition.

From the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, Port Moresby

Dear Sir,

In the July 28 issue of The Tonga Chronicle it was reported that the gov ernment of Iran may build an oil storage depot and an oil refinery in Tonga.

Though such developments could bring

substantial benefits to Tonga, I hope His

Majesty’s Government will carefully

weigh the risks involved.

A worst-case scenario is the disaster that occurred on March 24, when the supertanker Exxon Valdez hit a reef and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound in Alaska.

US$B million have already been spent to clean up the mess, but Prince William Sound may never be the same. ... ... Iran may not be able to export oil

much longer. I am one of several million Americans who hope that President Bush will order the bombing of Iran.

From a letter in the Tonga Chronicle, Nukualofa ONE of the last letters to come up from our departing Official Secretary, Bill Campbell, must surely be this gem.

Bill writes: “I enclose a copy of a letter received by this office from London Buses. As there may be persons on Nor folk Island who wish to purchase a second-hand double decker bus you might wish to print the letter in your

paper.”

The letter, dated 13th July from Lon don Buses, 500 Chiswick High Road, London W 4, SRG, is addressed to the

Commercial Manager, British Embassy,

Norfolk Island, Oceania and reads; “We have a number of secondhand Double Deck and Single Deck Buses available for sale and would be obliged if you could supply us with the names and addresses of major Bus Companies and Transport Journals in Norfolk Islands.

Signed David Jones for Commercial

Manager.”

From the Norfolk Islander