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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...
Laifaga
He was short and hard and wiry, his inquisitive brown eyes wide set and wondering above a broad nose and a mouth whose ready smile lost nothing from the absence of teeth between the two top canines. He stood at our front door one Sunday morning flanked by two tall impassive policemen in pith helmets and khaki tunics and lavalava skirts. He...
Plant Protection
The rhinoceros beetle that brought me to Samoa is a serious pest of coconuts because the adult chews its way into the crown of the coconut palm, feeding on the sweet juice, and if it doesn't actually mutilate the growing point and so kill the palm, it makes such a mess of the developing fronds that they lose a lot of their power to nourish the...
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...