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Grand Pacific
I recently saw again the Grand Pacific Hotel, languishing after ten years of neglect, with green algae growing up its once immaculate walls, and bidding fair to meet up with the streaks of black mould descending from its ornate parapet. The massive archway at its entrance was stopped up with ill fitting corrugated iron and access to the...
Kesi
He is an old man now, well into his sixties. He had a stroke about ten years ago which has left him rather gaunt, but he is still erect, tall even for a Samoan, and hhe tretains his alertness though his hair is at last beginning to grey at the temples. People ask him if he is Chinese, and it must be admitted he has a Chinese caste of features....
Blue Pacific
It was the rhinoceros beetle that took me to the Pacific, though chance and kind friends played their part. As a topic form my MSc thesis, I had hoped to get something that might help me to find gainful employment somewhere outside Christchurch Tech. The studies of limpets and sea squirts and the like which were popular at the time didn't...
Tokelau Islands
The people of the Tokelaus provide a tidy example of how mankind can exist in perpetuity within a minimal environment. They exist on three atolls about 500 kms north of Samoa, and a few degrees south of the equator. The atolls are about 100 kms apart, well out of sight of one another. When I went there in 1957, there was scarcely anything in...
Tall Pansies
There can be something pathetic about inheritors of great wealth. Doug Meyers plaintively trying to bring us to an appreciation of the awesome responsibilities that beset the billionaire; Ollie Newlands quite genuinely bewildered when peasants on the sidewalk give him the unsolicited fingers as he drives by in his Rolls. Endowed from birth with...