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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1933.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1933.
GOD OF FIJI
..
LEGENDS WHICH HAVE BECOME VITAL IN LIVES OF NATIVES
By B. J. HAMILTON
The Very Idea!
YOU CAD
By Edward Kolly, Bavonian
RAH! Rahi Rah!
We notice from the newspapers that the local schools and colleges com- its mence their next terms in
The waters surrounding the Fiji dash between, their canoe and super-Islands are abundantly provided with outrigger, and bursting them asun-
fish of all kinds, and sharks of the der he would devour the hapless the middle of September.
How well we remember shovel nose and hammer head varle-wretches as they fell into the water, ties, are plentiful. These sharks are always allowing one or two to escape in truth veritabla "tigers of the seas" and carry the news ashore, when our dear old Alma Mater. and every year exact their toll of great stores of food would be sent to How many times she spank-
formerly, when his temple to appease his wrath, the human life: but, voyaging between the various islands priest always dropping the shark's ed us because we used to was done in canoes, the loss of life shore une occasion, as any Natewa wag it from Oxford, or when was terrible.
Π
Genoral O'Duffy has not been arrested despite his doflance of the Government on Sunday when ho addressed. 12,000 Bluo Shirts publicly. It looks like a very.Bad lapse on the part of the Govern-
Ostablished Bort of military law, under which anybody can be arrested on suspicion, and brought before an officer who is empowered to inflict any punish ment from a skilling fine to the
On one death penalty. There seems to be
great native can vouch, bo oven drove On one occasion, when a
ashore, we were caught kissing the considerable scope between these double canoe went to pieces a few European offender's cutter two extremes for making the miles off the passage into Suva har and, letting the crew escape, devour-
bour, only three were saved out of cd tho white man, and put his severed girls, Oxford in those days punishment fit the crime. But 160 passengers, though bonts had hand on the little ledge in the cave, being a co-ed school.
Dakuwaqa's invariable put off from the shore to the rescue. as it was
We were born in Melbourne in what is a crime in Ireland nowa-ll the rest were devoured by sharks. custom to place part of the victim
canoe there, in order that the pricat might 1904, and in 1906 we arrived in daya? In the bad old days the On another occasion, when a
was know whether it was a European, London, broke, and indebted to of inw had a good deal more formality from an outlying group of Kadavu, half casto Tangan or Fijian who had the P. & O. line for our board and
wrecked on the south about 200 lives wore lost from a simi- been last sacrificed. than it is to have now, and even
FRIENDLY WITH NATEWAS. lar cause. Again half the population the most drastic methods were not of Dravuni who had stayed in their With Dakuwaqa's own people of
Cakaudrove or Natewa he was al so summary as this. However, if canoen overnight inside the Sole reef, wero caught in a sudden gate, and
and in their night the Irish like it this way. pre-the next day the broken remains of ways friendly, sumably they may have it. But there their canoes was all that was luft raids ho would swim in front of their terror canoes as pilot, so that they could to tail the tale. Naturally is always a suapicion, when these and fear prevailed and the primitive steer safely to the desired point by
Fijian sought for means of profitiat-the phosphoresence of his wake.
Dakuwaga had the power of making exceedingly drastic methods are ing the devils which inhabited the
Journeys himself into any size he liked, from adopted, that there is an incon-waters and made his sca
two feet to forty, and was said to fraught with extreme danger.
have a red bacic, while his belly was venient number of people who are
THE LEGEND.
a glistening white. He also appear- opposed to the existing regime.
ed occasionally as a water
continue
the clubs to consider
Now this is the legend of Dakuwaga
to a
bur
markings.
snake
room.
But we found our way out to Oxford, and Immediately - com- menced our studies.
•
Editor: Impossible. You were only
two years of age in 1906,
Eddie: There is a considerablo difference of time between Melbourne and London.
Oxford, turned out some bril- liant men In '06. Those were the
Hongkong taipans were in our class.
We remember the Wills' twins quite well, becauso in 07 we
jagged for both W.D. and H.O.
Perhaps that explains why the or the Shark God of the Fijians. The with distinctive black and white band days when. Bernard Shaw, W. G. Blue Shirt leader is still at large. wife of a Natewn chief gave birth
a still born child, and the body was Before setting down native stories Grace, Al Jolson, and several buried in a shallow-grave от the relating to the Shark God, I would well-known bank of a creek. Soon after the body like to relate of an incident which THE BATHING CLUBS
a heavy fresh came happened to Mr. Colman Wall during had been wreck, and the grave was the early period of his sojourn in Fiji down the
a European friend on washed away but the spirit of the Seated with BRITISH POLICY The immediate problem of the child entered into a log which was bluff on the island of Naqara, near
In addition to turning out the rolled along by the flood until It Suva, below which lay a shallow reef Chinese bathing clubs at North stranded on the bar at the mouth of which connects the island with the brilliant men we have already men
mainland, he saw a Fiji woman with tioned, Oxford also turned us out. The comparative quietness of Point has been set aside by Go- the river.
basket entered the political life in Britain would vernment's
We were expelled following a After a while, getting tired of in-her fishing net and announcement. that actions, the spirit passed over to a water front the opposite shore. It complaint by Professor Einstein. seem to suggest that the public the clubs are to be permitted to mandy spit on the adjacent island was a matter of daily occurrence as who informed the Head that we
had written and soon aftor, seeing a canoe. ap- the people from the village of Man
a treatise on the are well satisfied with the poli-
lay regularly use the reef for fishing as on the present yearly proaching. entered a log that cics of the National Government.
oven. The well as a ford; but what surprised Darwinian theory when he asked оде on the Theory of Yet public opinion has moved far
tenures. They would do well, alongside an old earth
canoe cume alongside and the people these two watchers on the bluff above for and fast since 1931. There are however, to give consideration to took the log and used it as roller or was to see a shark swimming behind Relativity.
Stories of our all-round athletic the yards. The woman looked behind indications that it has moved the warning that the shipping and silde to haul their vessel on to the the woman at a distance of five or six
shore. Next morning when much farther and faster than industrial development of the Filous Nere launching their canoe, ento or twice, and evidently saw the prowess at Oxford had appeared
shark and
the watchers expected a in all the papers, including the the Government. The thought Colony must have first claim upon they how me, and they
heard
The woman waded on Critic, and we received tempting of the nation has developed
wondering
though the water at offers from Cambridge to desert the
old Oxford campus, steadily in response to the march the area they occupy. We under- Jump around (Kurabul)
came from. At timen was up to her armpits. the voice where of events. To-day there is in- stand that
At last, when the water became
We went to. Cambridge, and & Permanent Com-length Binding it proceeded from the creasing consciousness of the mittee has been forced by the lug, they realized that a spirit must too shall watchers went down to the stroked their crew to victory in the
be concealed there, and they besought and the fact that the remedies needed
his beach and met the woman. She salt-race, but our heart was not in question hinting
to become their God. On not merely different
they took now are
the leg she had seen the shark but was not the game. Everywhere we went we from those needed less than two when it arises. It might to the years ago, but in some directions suggested that there is a "muchalet off their own village and built least afraid it would attack her came across Bovril and Oxo posters exactly opposite. Then it seem-safer course open than that of there a louse (Bure) and placed the spirit and it never was known to ed that an essentially "conserwaiting until notice -vative-policy was necessary-to-
avert the
of consequences Socialist finance. Economy be- came the fashion. Its spread CHINA AND JAPAN caused a tightening of purses, a reduction of consumption, and
"Attention, Kelly", he said, "In so, of course, a further diminu-
It is necessary to study the native what part of the world do you find tion of employment. The Bank
mind and the effect of the play of mangoes?" of England was as cautious as
"Where women goes," wo an- fear and other strong emotions on that BECAME A SHARK. the Treasury, and money, tightly
primitive mind before we can apawored promptly. Now sometimes the spirit, in re-,
circumstances adequate- So wo left, taking our Oxford held, ceased to fertilize industry.
oracies, ly. The subconscious memory of the British financial credit was com
sponse to incantations, would enter preciate the into the priest and give
relica with us. pletely restored. But British
sometimes he would appear on the Fijian saturated with old legends bags, fraternity pins, and other. must also be understood, and last,
In any case, we could not have industry was worse off. The
mainland as a man, but he preferred but by no means least, the desire above all to enter into the body of difficulty is that a Government expressly appointed to carry out
huge shark who lived in the cave common alike to European and native held out much longer, because our below his temple, and in this shape to appear as a central figure in the chit account was stopped at the
limelight often tempts men to make tuck shop. a policy of caution is not one
he roamed not merely the neighbour-
The doors of Oxford and Cam- peculiarly fitted to show daring Foreign Minister, temporarily, ing seas and channels, but as far as themselves the hero of adventures, the adjacent groups of Tonga and which they have heard from others,
Schools beneath our dignity, you and initiative. But daring and hopes were expressed that Japan Samoa and was honoured and feared and which invariably have gathered bridge closed to us, and the Public initiative are what British public would get what she wants, Mr.by all the dwellers in these islands to themselves new marvels as they cads, there was only one thing left
Ad- to do. In the early days of British have passed from mouth to mouth.
(Continued on Page 7-) ministration in Fiji a Bull or nativo
The
to quit is screen.
shrine log behind
served upon the clubs.
*
The constant talk in Japan of coming rapprochement with China
appears to lack solid foundation, unless it be expressed in terms of Tokyo's own desire to end the China adventure where it rests and concentrate upon other acute problems. When Mr. Wang Ching
wol succeeded Mr. Lo Wen-kan as
as she said it was her Vu or ancestral und advertisements to remind us
of our old Alma Mammy, Tara meddle with her people, but it was
known to readily attack strangera.
This incident is vouched for and is related here to illustrate the state of the native mind on such matters. TRUTH OF THE LEGENDS. Most of the legendary stories of Dakwags are very ancient, and to morely state they are untrue is a crude way of getting out of difficulty.
a sacred
Now under this isict is a cave call- ed Qara Ni Kanaen, with an entrance tides under water, though at low the top of the arch la bare, and the centre of the islet is a hole look- ing down into the deep water of the having on one side a small ledge with the tides, and they built the Bure Kalou (temple house) over
this hole.
opinion to-day demands.
fiercely resented any insult offered feeling is that Britain is now in Wang being credited with ability as the great Shark God. He always position to display these qualities to listen to reason. Apart from to himself or his priest, and when in her policy both at home and what "reason" might imply, those he caught the offenders at sea would abroad. The soundness of her hopes have been damped by an in- finance being now amply demon- formal atatement from Nanking strated, many urge that she is indicating that foreign policy do strong enough to depart from not express the personal attitude methods of extreme caution. of the Minister but is subject to There are those who think that
the sanction on the Suprome Britain should not wait for a rise of prices in America, but Council. This sounds a little dis- should give a lead to the world couraging, as friendly feeling to-
by forcing a higher price level wards Japan and a readiness to imong all countries on the accept her proffered bargains is not .common in Kuomintang sterling basis. The same curvery
Indeed, the Japanese rent of feeling which is impa- circles. tient with the essentially "con- General Staff, about Christmas servative" policy at home leads last, was reported as issuing a also to strong criticism of a Gov-statement that for the security of ornment which is felt to be too Japan, the Koumintang must be conservative (in the political destroyed.
senso) in its polley abroad.
There is no nation in the world
which is more determinedly THE HUANG FU TALK
pacifist in its attitude to day
than Great Britain. But that
It will also, have been observed
attitude, it is felt has not been that the tendency to make much adequately expressed and the
mystery of the "Four Power of the conversations
betwcon
pact" has caused irritation.. In General Huang Fu and Mr. regard to Japan, public opinion Arlyoshi has gradually faded would have strongly supported away, The Tokyo Foreign Office the Government if it had taken expresses itself as satisfled with up a much more emphatic atti- the result of the talk, but tudo in its denunciation of the "Japan's policy in entirely dopen- Manchurian war, and the thron-dent upon the attitude of China," tening line adopted toward Rus- The phraseology... máy. -maan Bin met with by no means un nothing at all and it may mean animous approval In the House quite a ct. In themselves, they vernment seem to sursat that Mr Arlyoshl ilds not permit himself to be
Besides, Cambridgo was not co- educational, and we longed for the Finally, we could stand it ho company of the other box. longer. We were studying botany in the class-room one day, when Professor H. G. Wells Buddenly snapped at us:
So we became a remittance man, immigrating to the colonies..
But our heart is still at Oxford. At night, as we lie under the stară, the sheep roaring around us, and the hyenas crawling into our sleep. ing bag for, warmth, our minds often return to the old campus.
We can still see the gang-saving the day at the last minute on the cricket field, stalking into the speak- oasies at the dead of night, and drinking their gin neat. Two- fisted he-men, who were quick on the draw as they reached to their hips for the flasks, and pink-kneed co-eds. Those were the days. Tai
Mammy1 We Alma Mammy! can almost hear the cheer, leaders as they sway the yelling thousands at the cricket field:
"Oxford, Bovell, Bah! Bah! Bah
"This is the life in the
RAW RAW! RAW!
WATER, WATER, WATER This water shortage in Hongkong
is really getting serious. What wo. moan is, if a man gets out of bed before a.m., he's still got to take. his bath. Why can't the authori-. ties turn on the water while we're all at work.
There's another thing, too. Our hondacho was complaining about: the lawn getting all hot and wither ed yesterday so she rang up the water authority people about IE
Now that these restrictions are In force, when do I put on my 67 hose të shi neked, men NEU Jane Madamov, skid tho thápíľk!
ather end of the phone,
youp