NATIVE “HOWLERS”
EXAMINATIONS IN FIJI
* SOME AMUSING ANSWERS
SUVA., December 18,
December in Fiji l>n,.gs with it the aiuUku examinations of Fijian and Indian students who are desirous cf entering the teaching profession or obtaining pos.tious in Government departments, and with these examinations is also tiie usual crop of uchoiA.boy “howlers.” Arisuig out of language difficulties,' they are usually nuimeioui; and amusing. A new definition of the word friable was given by a young man, who explained that “eggs wore friable, rt while another young Eijian, whose thoughts apparently turn towards sport, stated that in Fiji there were two seasons —
cricket and football, and that lie liked the football reason best.
It wais a young Indian who announced that the word franchise was the name of a woman, while another young man of the same race explained that “the duty of the Governor wals; (a ) to appoint Government officials; (b) to disappoint them,”
Asked to state the five main exports of Fiji a Fijian lad evidently read the word “main” as men ami “exports” a,s experts, and replied as follows:
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1932, Page 3
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