FROM SUVA

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 109, 1 February 1941, Page 16

FROM SUVA

fJERE is an extract from a letter which was written to Magpie (13), Fcilding, hy a Rew 'Zealander stationed at Suva.

TT is extremely hot out here, the temperature being well over SO degrees every day. In fact, out in the sun the other day I believe it was over 100 degrees. At. night we sleep with our tents rolled as high as possible, and only a sheet covering us. Then our mosquito net is tied on the rafters of the hut and tucked well under the mattress to keep out all the insects that fly around. .Sometimes in our sleep we break the tapes that hold the net suspended, and it is not unusual to wake up and tiud yourself completely tied up in yards of netting. “The natives live in small thatched huts, and I believe that most of them are very clean, although I have nor been into one yet. (We are not permitted to go to a native village unless invited.) There are schools in rhe towns, and children attend just the same as in New Zealand, and some of them seem very intelligent. “The only fruit we have been able to get are coconuts and pineapples, but there are others we hope to get later. They also have several other fruits, but they have a weird taste, and 1 am not very fond of them.”