Vol. 6, No. 2. Port Moresby, Thursday, 15th February, 1934. Price: 3d. which you should read and reniember. English is a language that is spoken On Learning English. But some foolish children nrrer look andwritten and read by ~naily~nillioils HE Yaruah- TII~LAGERsaid, in inside t,lies~11oolis once they are of people all over the ~~orltl.There 111 ,June. 1930, " The most irnport- away frorri their school. They say, are many languages spoken Papua, T ant tlliilg you learn at school "These books are 0111s to be read by so inany that it would take a man all us while we are a,t scliool." This is his life to learn only a few of then]. is thc English Language."- - In thc years that have passed since But if everybody in I'apua learnt we said this, iriany thousallds of English, not only to speak it but also Papuan cllildren have been learning to read and write it, then there would English in the schools. Some of be one language in use all over our these children have learnt to read and country. This would be a very good write and speak English very well. thing, for you would then be able to Many of them have written articles speak to every person you met, no and stories which you have read in matter what part of the country he our p:lges. Last month we printed belonged to. an artic,le that was written by a Another very good reasori why you schoolgirl at Delena ; it won the prize should learn English, is that it will for t,he best article written by a help you to learn a lot about the Fapu:tll in that issue. other c,ountries away froin Papua. But soinetirnes we receive stories There are not nlar?y books printed in and articles that are so badly written the Papuan la~nguages,but there are that they are no use to us. We want a great n~inlberof books and papers to print mailymore stories andarticles that are printed in English. And if that are written by Papuans, but we you learn to read English properly, want you to write thein properly- you can read these English books and spell the words correctly, and so on. newspapers and thus know about the MTe know that inany of you can write things that are going on all over the very well and, as ThePqp~~a?;TTillngel- world. You ill be able to do what is OUT paper, we want you to help us the white people do, take up a news- by scnding in more stories and articles paper or a hook and read everything about the things you do, the things that is in it-and uriderstand ,every you hear and the things. you think Lovikia, a man of Kararna. G.D. word that you jea.d. -'Bid so yo111- about. education ~iP'goon long after you This writing of English is a rery have lett sc,hool; that is why it is important thing, and we want you to so iillportant that you should learn yuitc wrong. YOUsho11ld read your English. do all you can to learn to write it books hen you are not at school, for properly. YouF teachers will help if you do this, you ~~111soon find out Some of you, who read tliis article, you to understand the language,' but that you will retnerrlher your lrssons will say, '' But it is very hard worlr unless you try very hard to reinember much niore easily wlien you are in to learn Englisll." We know it is what they teach you, their hard work scl!ool. " Practice inakes perfect " is hard work, but so is everything else will be ~5-asted. a very wise saying; the moie you that you learn at school, or are taught The Government h2s had school practise reading English the quicker by your people in the village. If you books printed in English, and these you will learn to speak and write want to make a canoe, you hare to be books are full of useful kno\vledge proper English. shown by your father the best wood, 10 THE PAPUAN VILLAGER FEBRUARY, 19~ -p-. ho~vto cnt dori~the tree, shape it and dances in the Fuyuge villages. If he Tlle pl~otograpllof the yarns in th clig it out. 'This is hard work, but was a white man in Australia, he village of TVahutirna, Trobriand Is when you have irlade your canoe you would make money as an actor for the lands, rvzs by Mr. TJ. hustcn. will lee1 very proud of your work. If moving pictl~res,for he has a very loud Tile 131~otographof the Stynth was \~orthall the hard rvorli, you will voice and is able to speak very \\-ell. supplied to lls by the 1 tell yonrself mhen you go about in it. G~~~-B~~~a sInall boy, ox%-ners,The Peninslila'r nild Or ,4nd you n-ill liave tlir: sa,ine thought if his fatller told him that, as he Stetam Nttvigation Co., IAtd. you learn English, for, once you have not the son of a real chief, he should The view of the interior of t learnt to speak and write and read it, learn n.ell the dance customs, also ho~v Bromilom hlcrriorial Church, Do you will lino~vthatt it was ~vorthall to speak well, so that he could becorne E.D., was sent tu us by the Rev the hard work you did t,o learn it. a dance chief wllen he becarne a ~nan. Dixon, of Ilohu. Tht: l'nl~un,z Villager gives a prize And so, to-day, Goma-Bode is the best 'pile of the L of five shillings to tlie writer of the dance chief in all the Fuyuge villages. j'Jissionary Society's P;em school best st,ory or article it prints every The dance was a very good one ; it llelena, C.D., was by RIr. R).T'. Old month. Pcrliitps you can mite a ham, of liitiruku, C.D. story or an article that will win this was attended by a great nulrlber of people from the villages in the rnoun- we regret the omission of t prize ? If you think you can do this, taills near Evesi. Gollla-Bode came donors' names mhen 11-e publishe just sit clown and write your story or into the village; he was dressed in these photographs; the aclino zrticle, put it in an envelope and ask nlent was left when the page W your teacher to send it to us. Re- all his best ornaments, and he wore a big cassorvary-feather head-dress. rnade up, arid the Editor now haste n~elnl)erth:~t it is not always the Everybody admired him as he spoke to express his thanks for the use longest story or article that wins a to the real Chief of Evesi. He tola these pllotograplls. prize ; it is the one that we think the best written anit the most interesting the Chief that the time lla'd corne to that rvins the five shillings prize. kill the pigs. The Chief told hini to go ahead and kill the whole lS7 of Death Of the Hon. %anifon the big pigs. Smith, M.B.E. A Great Feast at Evesi. But before the pigs were killed by We are very sorry to tell our reader the strong men with the big w~oden that their old friend, the Hon. Sta In Central Papua, among the big clubs, G01na-Bode stood among the forthsmith, M.B.E., died at P n~onntains,there is a great tribe (as pigs and made a speech to all t,he Westerri Alistralia, on the 14th big as t11~Blnt~ndele) called Fuyuge. people. He told thern how rich t'he uary, 1934. 'I'hey are a fine lot of people, and they Fuyuge were in these big fat pigs; Mr. Ktaniforth Smith was have some strong customs. Six or how had plenty pigs becallsethe) rnisSioner for Lands and Directo seven years ago they -?ere often fight- had plenty of big gardens; and of &Jines alld Agriculture for ma 111g ~~71ththe other tribes, and some- they were a strong people because they years he came to Papua in 19 times they fought the Government. hard making these big after h xving been a Senator To-day the Flxylxge are qulet and gardens, a'nd so had plenty of good \yestern Australia in the Austral peaceful. They do not kill anyhody food always. The people listened to In " pay-back " fights; ar~dthey are every word he said and, when 'he the good friends of the Governrrlent, finished speaking, they cheered him On when and clapped their hands very loudly, Hubert Murra~,K.c.1f.G.1 the Li because they know the Government tenant-Governor of Papua, wasabs 1s the friend of all tl~epeople. Then Goina-Bode and his mates from the it^^^, stanifo killed all the pigs, and the village men But now that they are at peace with sInith was ~d~i~i~t~~t~~of pap all the other mountain peoples. they cut them and piled the fat Ineat He travelled all over Papua, and in big heaps in the middle of the still keep up some of their strong was very well known to our reader customs, one of which is the giving village. Goma-Bode then stood be- who, \ve feel sure, will be very sorr side the pile of pork and ga~~eit to all of big dances.