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personal attention and reward than that of simple gratitude to their 
people for their remarkable personalities! I find that I am hopeless 
in remembering names, yet good at recalling details of events. In fair- 
ness to them and myself, therefore the premeditated recording and tabulating 
of these highly personal encounters is all I can rely upon for eventually 
fulfilling promises made, renewing friendships and reciprocating or 
recompensing these fine people for what they have given me. Verbal and 
ordered as I am, it is in this further step of ordering that I finally 
succeed in retaining and endurlngly imprinting upon both my memory and 
my conscience my obligation and gratitude. 
Sola Plantation and Arep French Primary School, 
Port Paterson, Vanua Lava October 4, 1972 
M. Paul Vidal and his wife have helped us immensely in our study of 
their 140 school children and we have managed to get a vast job done 
correctly and thoroughly and we are off tonight for a visit to Muslna 
village of Vanua Lava, a one hour walk from the Arep French Primary School, 
which has been reconstructed since it received the heavy hurricane damage. 
The Sola plantation from which the French bought the land for the school, 
has been extensively damaged and there is now no copra production. It 
is said to have been to von N who has been buying up all alienated 
land he can secure in the Banks Islands from the much "safer" French 
Plantation owners. Jean still insists that the land titles have not been 
fully recognized by the Land Claim court and thus he may be blocked by 
the French and British governments which both dislike his presence in these Islands. 
St. Alban School, Vetleghelr Ground, Vetumboso, 
Yureas Day, Vanua Lava October 5, 1972 
After an evening on shore with all of our party but Walter and 
Fran 5 oise, we are back at the school buildings awaiting the arrival 
of the shore boat to take most back home. Judy and I are remaining 
on shore, and a horde of school children are crowded about us at their 
school building. They have just sung a final song over the walkie-talkie 
radio to Walter in our 9 p.m. shore- to-ship communication. I recorded 
a half dozen songs up at the village this evening sung by some three or 
four dozen children. There was also a skit about kava drinking with an 
exaggerated pantomime of the effects of kava. A Diocese of Melanesia 
morality play! 
We have bled the entire school of 74 students and have only some 
half of the physical examinations to complete tomorrow. We also plan 
to see all sick patients and those with complaints at the Vetumboso 
village. There is a dispensary here at the village run by Timothy from 
Aoba and Father Gregory Maluwos of this very village is the Anglican Priest 
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