Island outposts get together
Follow
By G. D. K. M'cormick
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me in your Im-helps to pep up tired Western stomachs. Mr. Strachey might ngination on a swifi journey ponder on the possibilties round, the lonely but roman-varying our food Imports with tic culposts of our Empire In some of the delectable food pro- the vast Pacific Ocean.
feinating to see what a bird wealth of cokmi, drama comely there is in the hundretti, i of were sperks on the map wach drgets the fat-dog setacul of ov. Pacthe pursesntens
For the best time history these alunia will be laruught into close touch with one antich carly next veur The leaders al The Puls nexiumin, Melunestans and Miletunealtes
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the com
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Talking
A discovery
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of coconuts me that the days of discovery the mimbered in are not yet Pacific Ocean. A New Zealand wnship, cruising in there waters, reporte a prospect which should berigat any 1949 would-be colon- LA OF 19enpint with an eye to Coundova o new home on an un- mbalated island
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There A uninhabited island rake Flint, ut: loll three milles ong by half mile while, on which are growing thousands of coconuta The retains "f ZE plantation abandoned some years. before World War 11
So here a chance for stand home-hunters, Flint Island, ac- cording to my New Zealand In- formants, is yours for the pick- on And, for anyone Pise who es anderestrel there are ten other unvnbted utils in the same area
Recently the
New
Zealand sloop Kantere visited Flight is land, and put ashore a painted hending stating that thus Way under Batishi sovereignty.
THE CHINA MAIL,
What you should know about Christmas
ORIGINAL SEAL USED IN DENMARK
repyright 1940.
HRISTMAS seals were
originated in Denmark in 1804, by a postal clerk, to raise money for charity. The idea was adopted in the U.S. in 1907. by a private organi.
zation. Christmas stumps are issued by several governments. now to raise money for health purposes.
Kine Freurs Byndicalà, Ina.
14 Heie te
MERRY CHRISTALAS
FIRST SEAL USED IN U.S. (1907)
A
few, cnndles and home-made "cement." teney is used freely in cooking, stuming meat as well as for cakes,
adventurers? examples: -33, married, 14 years' grocery experience with a Scut- tish him. Man aged 28. marized, ? general engkert
Malde
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Copra and bananas
Proud Tonge's proudest boast is enough! These round
with u will-o'-the-I that she has been a self-govern- characters.
ing State within the Common- wisp romanticism about them,
wealth with a Friendship Treaty with Britain since 10OD.
Certainly then e 1年のといちんが
traces in the 15- Do people emigrate from Bri- the weirdest
Tw Jain to Estants such 28 these" lands. Beachcombing is Apparently some sull de, for honourable profession with wine. have before me an ivertisement One men maken a round of twenty
lalands every few months simply bananas to to collect the cudicis ut ends of, tam. the beach to sell in his barzani in the Cook Islands
from a Mi William El Watson, a merchant on Rarotonga 1 states
Stable characters
sojne
In the hope that I may asist In the deserving
prople Old Country tổ tijd new oppor-
Its New World Juration South Parle Islands) i decided to start a non-profit employment agency in the en
the
Mr Watson Roes on to describe how he
Brilish ndvertised in
and sent newspaperk
question- aires to all who replied. He gave slnka Ust of British men who sought sturly in their Pheifle territories,, a fe in the South Sea Islands. have found that a coconut diet What sort of men are these
Amerienna, making
ESDAY, DECEMBER 21,11045.
Raising sheep a headache here
By Jumes WhiLE
1
Aut
xe Not many people would possible for the shoop to change jobs with Peder rough to the grass. Open Peter's sheep stray down to the water's Nielsen,, sheep-farmer, is, is edge to eat men woed. In a hard more iltan just the tough life wisten mpny, starve, and, ha lá of the average sheep-farmer, powerless to aid them. If he is for his farm is in Greenland not nt hand to help them back over the lay ground inany, will be and only just South of the teowned by the incoming side, Arctic circle... L
Winter fødder is dimroll to come Like ait,sheep farms in Green; } by in this burren country. land, Poder. Nielsen's lies at the | Greenland sheep will eat any, dried and pickled edge on a flord, Though, Southern thing ever Greenland . fairly lec-free summer, there are no roatia in the Revertiteless sheep-farthing - has mountainous interior so all irnos Meadily prospered in Greenland -port must be done by sea. Con- sluce, the first, shiten were intras sequently, though good grasi is duced from, the Faroe fainnas in often toung inland, the difficulties? 10. Todny more and more of carrying, building materinkaj Greenlanders are taking is sheep, and provisions
country | farming for it pays well. A maŋ make it impracileel to live any- | with, sevąen) higiked, sleep vark where but by the count.
carn a yearly income of about Poder Nielsen has lived live of £600-tax free! That is money hle 30 years in the snug woollen in Greenland...
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across
Tr winter the Niciseus aro usually completely cut all from the world by the ke which seats the fjordis and- often covers the ground round his bouse.
Ally
Hut which he shares with hist The most, suitable breed wife one children. Without them | rheen hon buen found to be the he would he even tonelter for it hardly iceland type. The first hour's by motor bitch of. Faroese sheep did well. boat to reach his nearesỉ neigh. | But when the Greenland
ministration became interested in the experiment, in 1913 and ported a number of British sheep these fulled to do so well. Ac- cordingly when the Administras tlon, set up the sheep slation af Julianehaab two years later, they rounded up all the Farnese and British sheep and bulchered them one and all. They were imme- leesan le diately replaced by sheep. By the autumn of 143 there were some 22,000 ewes in South West of Greenland, the
mostly round Julianehanb.
But Peder prefers the free. though hard ife in the country to living in the town of Godthan where he was brought up. lather was Danish and his mother Though he lives in 4 Danish colony Ieder does ngi to himself Donish. Dut nt will tot lær you to call him on Eskimo either. He is a Greenlander.
Eskimo.
Mostly ice
South
Härd Winter
Last year, however, lewus ex-
Tonga has made considerable laving made in his milisst toceptionally cold (often 40 degrees progress agriculturally. Her chief be a steep farnier, Petter Nicken of frost). Some half of the entire sala good-liye to his tumily hisheep population died. The winter exports are copra and bananak Naturally, she hopes to sell more fatti:aab one summer day and lasted jonger than usual
banano-starved Bri-sallet
Julianenaab, | almost all inmbs, born before the Greenland's largest settlement. middle of May, dled, igallko wer and put of a total The high prices now being Here he became a student at the hit hardest
sheep-farming sta flock of 8,100 only about 1,400 pakt for copru are helping the governinent
sur-ton. After three years' study ho survived the winter The Tahitian administration is, State to build up a healthy
a government loun t Though he suffered losses. Peder for rats Tails plus as well as to Bnance med stained offering a tenu
buy
building materials and equip Nielsen was one of the luckier buliding and educational be ya711 to Papeete, cul, should
sues. Most of his several hundregi ment and, even 'mare Important will whereupon payment
be projects.
of sheep to start his sheep survived. But he got pract hit the mbabitants of mude,
Despite the remoteness of the number
leally nothing for his fleeces of 132341 it Uturoo Iskand
too much Mother Country from these 14- farm. He had already chosen a
ferille-looking
Igatike most of his sleep lost their wool. customs are in-
spot on trouble to park up the tails and lands British
Juring the summer he had made fjord and it wasn't long before SO 30 they post them.
are oakingcreasing. Particularly is this
he be had bullt himself a house.
Into long journey
the Tennis 1s now so ihat payment should be made or in sport
Nature never intended Green- interior on his shoggy Icelan presentation of the tails locally popular that it is played all night
Though. pony to procute hay, In some Islands
food- land to be sheep country; 80%
of it is covered with ice as much like most Greenlandera, he is n10 BEBWAX Honey and
have ujeourts,
Football? There is a club called as a mile thick. In winter even proper shelter for his sheep, he score of uses in the Cook Islands,
the ice-free coostal districts are kept them round the house all The honey is used for making the Hibernian in Samon, and its
is: Played 32, won 32, often covered with snow of i winter so that he could feed them sweel record beer, wine and a fiery,
thin layer of lee, making it un-land tend them at lambing tiu.e. liqueur, while the wax in used for goals fur 173, against 35.
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