OTAGO WITNESS APPRECIATED.
HIGHLY PRIZED IN NEW GUINEA.
A resident of Kokopo, via Rabaul, New Guinea, writes as follows:- — “ Being a New Zealander, and a constant reader of your paper, which I have forwarded to me with every mail, I thought you may be interested in a picture which I enclose. “ Although the Kanakas cannot read, they eagerly look forward to receiving my old copies of the Otago Witness. The news pages are used to wrap tobacco in cigarette making, but the pictorial pages are highly prized. The Kanaka who possesses the greatest number of pictures is looked upon as “ a big fella man too much ” amongst other members of his tribe. “ It is real comedy to hear a native endeavouring to explain the origin and I meaning of these pictures to his envious brothers.”
The picture appears in our illustrated pages.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3961, 11 February 1930, Page 6
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