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ridges, and between each pair of risigea s tinycwatercourse, brought from his spring | » hundred yards away by a skilfully wado | aqueduct, of bollowed pandanna, trunki- all these; fenced in by a charming screen of woven bamboo strips; formed a picture of industry that may well free him from the accusations brought against the typical beachcomber,

(The St. George, which is now on its way home, carried a number of

WHAT'S THE USE OF MONEY1*** scientists to the South Pacific on a voyage of discovery and investigation. And yet this garden is only his spare organised by the Scientife Expeditima.cecupation. True, he has a con tionary Research Association.]

siderable amount of such Lue, but he has also charge of many thousands of neres Scientific work is necessarily imper- of young coconut plantation, the fencing sonal, but with certain places certain of which ho has to keep in order lest wild as horses and cattle destroy the growing so definitely Imked persons are to become inseparable from them. So trees; he has to pay regular visits to the it is with the island of Hiva Oa, offices of the owners in Atuona, he has with which I shall ever associate the his fowls to feed, his meals to prepare, lonely Finn, Einar Nikender South Sex his household tasks to perform. True, stories are full of tales of beachcombers all these are reduced to a minimum; but and of white men gone native, but here most of the inhabitants of these islands was a type utterly different from the seem to find them an all-sufficient occupa tion, and nowhere else have we seen any beachcombers of

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thing to approach the neatness and clean- ness. of Nikanders garden. Here he

I met him on our first lay at the island Landing in our little canoc, we were dragging it up on the black sandy beach great cabbages, excellent tomatoes, tlettuce, radishes, egg-fruit, taro, beans, a: the head of the bay of Tanbuka when and any other vegetable of which he can he came down the bill opposita and greeted us with a hearty Europeaa hand- obtain the seed. He is very modest ns

to his achievements, shake, a very different thing to the limp. grasp of the native islandiers.

A fine Agure of a man, stad only in a pair of dungurce trousers, but carrying abrightly striped shirt over his arm barehended and curly-haired, blue-eyed and brightly smiling, he looked a typical sailor, bronzed and healthy. His only luggage was 12 sack containing a few garden vegetables, which he proceeded to empty into our canoe lettuce, radishes, carrots, and tomatoes feast of Lucullus for travellers who had seen no fresh vegetables for nearly forty days, We had no money with in, bus difidently suggested future payment

"I don't want nothing for, them, he replied, with a touch of indignation;

they are for the ship."

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gardener," he says, "I am

a sailorman." But many a skilled gar dener would be proud of such successful results. He, on the other hand, attributes them entirely to the fertility of the soil.

You stick a seed in to-night, and to morrow it is up," he explains, taking to himself no credit for the tender care that supplies, the necessary shade and moisture and ensures that no coarse weeds shall compete with the tender seedlings. In spite of all this work he still finds time for a certain amount of reading.

Not stories," he says. When I was ubey, 12 or 1, I liked made up stories; but now I've no use for them." History and travel are the form of Eterature to prefers, and he mentions with keen ap- prociation the story of Anson's "Voyage Bound the World, a summary of which he had just been reading.

We chatted a little, discovered that he bad been four years on the island, and that he lived quite alone in an upland

We happened to have on board a space. valley some three miles distant from Atuons; he invited us to visit him, and set of the "Outline of History," Now next day we did so. The walk to his it is the property of Einar Nikander, and home proved to be one of recarkable Mr. Wells may be assured that he has at least one truly appreciative reader in beauty. Walking up through the coconut this furthest corner of the world. For plantation on the shore, we slowly mount here is no inere rough sailor, "feeing the ed a Ettle valley, and on reaching the top obtained a grand view of the bays of hardships of the sea and seeking an easy Atuona and Taabuka, with their backlife in a lotus land. Several times he ground of rugged mountains. A refresh ing breeze blows almost continually over the pinteau, on which we found ourselves, and for the rest of our journey we enjoy ed its bracing influence.

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THE DIRECTORY envers the notable events, porta and cition of the Far East, from Ketherlands " India, to Eiberia, in whiska Entreponna rexile.

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Eastern

PERILS OF BAKING.

DISEASE AMONG WORKERS.

AMAZING « STATEMENTS. surprised us with the keenness of his

THE MAPS AND PLANS. observation, as when he inquired why our yacht was flying the blue ensign with its The alleged alarming spread of the dis

of the principal ports of the Far East have beesh Union Jacka dengan ease of dermatitis amongst bakers in the angraved by one of the most emment Flant in “There is no union now," he pointed British Isles, and the dangers arising Great Britain and are annually corrected and out; Ireland is separated."

from tampering with four during manu brought up to date, r

event He commented pithily on the natives facture were discussed at the conference The CHRONICLE covers the notabla

import and their rulers; on the various nationali-of the Amalgamated Union of Operative together with the Texts of all the most. ties under which he had sailed; on Bakers, Confectioners, and Allied Work Treaties eccluded with the countries

The Tanons: Curtoms. Pasilan Chambers of Commercs, spent twelve years; on England, which August 18th Mr. W. Banfeld, general Sealer of he had several times visited and his com- secretary, said that dermatitis was des 1

Dation ments were generally apt and never spreading to such an extent that where Weights and Masrures and other Com ill-natured. We were especially interest there was only oire ease a few years ago, merual Information, stavi jungle of the main valleys. Away to the ed in his remarks on the wealth of there were twenty to-day. It was not A. It fablished at the Offón of the "Hor

America, with her piles of gold and silver, very nice thought for the consumer that SONG DALY PEERS." there," he said, "for those who want it Laa ho expressed it. Plenty of money But me, I don't want it. What's the use of money you don't take it with you when you diet I have all I want here," and he glanced happily at his garden of

plateau, itself is covered with a thick womenkind; on America, where he hadars, which concluded at Nettingham on Trade, Comalie and Court:

Billed chiefly with pandanus trees, the growth of farm-like bracken, two or three feet high The resemblance to our open moorlands at home was very striking, and pleasant contrast to the close, dense north ran the main ridge of the island, from two to three thousand feet in height, grooved with innumerable valleys that suggested the furrows of some gigantic ploughmian, so evenly were they spaced.

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man suffering from a filthy disease his bread was perhaps being made by The Directories and Descriptiose son of im like dermatitis Employers, Instead of fighting the men over compensation claims should have used all possible

The plateau is anything but oven

means of research to remove the scourge. thousand billocks meet the eye, whichever | fowers

The Head Office had intimated that they way one looks, and there is scarcely ' Had we left him at this point we might were inquiring into the matter, and had hundred yards of level walking in any have gone away with the impression that invited the operatives to submit evidence direction. After a couple of miles' walk bere, at last we had found the perfectly as to whether the use of chemicals as over this plateau a sharp dip in the patch happy man Perhaps the impression improvers in manufacture were a means brought us to the valley in which Nikon would have been a correct one, but there of aggravating the disease. It was the der lives, and a sharp dip in the path for is another side to his character, and one intention of the union to ask operatives half a mile, fed us to our destination, which I approach with some hesitation, who were victims of dermatitis to give Tho call of a lusty chanticleer heralded fearing to give a false idea of him or of evidence before the Home Office Com our approach, and as we reached the bislife. But false it would be if I

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barred gate of an enclosure Nikander stopped at this point-so here is the haremitter. The causes of the disease were Makdra stepped forth from his hut. For his re-truth of what happened later on that Sun at present pure guess work, but it was sidence can hardly be dignified with the day afternoon.

a peculiar thing that in South Wales there were more enses of dermatitis than in all the other districts of the union combined

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A resolution from South Wales called upon the Ministry of Health to protect the public from injurious substitutes and bleaching of flour. Mr. Banfield said.

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Hanoi Haiphong Forkin

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name of house, nor would he wish it to THE PRESENCE OF YEHOVAH be A long shed of bamboo poles, "with

For perfugis a couple of hours we had galvanised iron roof, formed the main

Mr. Atkins, of Llanelly, moved a building, but his time is chiefly spent in been with him, admiring his garden, his a smaller hut, with merely a roof or vegetables, his fruit, his glorious valley resolution urging the Ministry of Health coconut leaves, and open to the breeze all around, is almost tog friendly chick to apply expert scientific research to the on all sides. Here were a rough table ens, and their friends the cats. We causes and cures of the disease. between benches of bamboo rods covered were sitting now enjoying a delightful said that half the operatives at Llanelly with rice straw matting, a couple of home tur ofen and chatting on all sorts of already had the disease, and the other made stools, a packing case cupboard, auerts. Suddenly, his quiet voice hall were expecting to contract it. The three petrol tins for storing water, and changed to a tremendous hout, which scourge had spread from the operatives to the employers, and zo inadequate was A few cooking utensils. Beside, it was Tang and ethoed through the valley.

Scop Ye-ho-vah!" he cried, and, looking medical treatment that once a 1001 his Aceplace of stones and a pile of fire- Wood

up considerably startled, we saw a strange caught the disease he was never com light in the Finn's bine eyes pletely rid of it. There were some oper The bare necessaries of life some might You hear that!" he saith He is atires who had andered for eighteen he disposed to call them, hut all the

talking to the You know who He is 1 months, and others who were working necessarios in his opinion; for close by think you call Him the Lord; but with their as swathed in bandages. there grow beautiful flowers-gardenies, Yehovah is His name. He often comes The consuming, public apparently. did roses, and love-lies bleeding a little to me and talks with me When I am not realize the risk they ra The re- further off are bananas, breadfruit trees, at work, when I walk, when I sleep solution was carried. je and papaias-food in plenty to be had always He is here. These scientists, some for the plucking. But he is no puro of them, they don't believe he cxists, but vegetarian, for everywhere were swarms I know. He tells me Himself, of chickens of all sizes and breeds (the Words cannot express the absolute con- latter very mixed), while on terms ofviction with which he spoke or the that, whatever the cause, the quality of closest intimacy with them are the cats sincerity of bis helict in the immanence flour to-day was not what it was in years he keeps to ward off rats and mee of God

gone by, and the use of chemical sub Beyond the hut he showed us, with par You think I'm crazy 7" he inquired, stitutes, undoubtedly made the work of donable pride, the vegetable garden which Lu

Many people here say so but it is the the operatives much more difficult. The he das made for himself with the expen-truth I am telling you."

matter was at present receiving the at- diture of no small amount of labour. There seemed some painful recollections tention of a Departmental Committee sp especially when cue remembers that the mlagled with his joy in this close com- pointed by the Ministry of Health. normal temperature here runs from 80 to munion tears were in his eyes as ho Mr. T. Ferris, vice-chairman of the 90 deg in the shade. We had wondered hinted at past events, insisted that he executive, said many of the chemicals at first why his broad back was burnt was no churchgoer, and told us of the first at present introduced into four during several shades darker than his splendil Decision on which he had beard this call; manufacture were contrary to the in- chest our visit to his garden easily ex but the only, sign of real peculiarity was forests of the consumer. The bleaching plained the anomaly. He loves his garin bis puzzled inquiry as to why Yehovah and treating of flour, for instance, was den, and be has implicit faith in the always spoke to him in English. It was quite unnecessary, and made it possible efficiency of hand weeding

certainly strange to be informed that the for an inferior quality of flour to be Nowhere else have I scen much clean Creator speaks English, Marquesan, and faisted on the public as superior: Tzera cultivation the fine soil brought from Polynesian, but never Fr

Freach or Finnish were also good grounds for suspecting a neighbouring Inside the complete He can speak them all,” he told us that chemicals were seriously affecting absence of weeds (and this in a land ]” He knows all things, but to me he the health of the operatives where ill weeds do grow space), the tidy always speaks in English."

The resolution "was carried.

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